Quotes about Purpose

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

he's not first working on your happiness; he's committed to your holiness.

Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that's not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It's God working to complete what he's begun in you.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do.

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,