Quotes about Purpose

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

attained. You will be, as Paul would say, pressing on and attaining that for which Jesus Christ laid hold of you. Which brings me to my next point—an avenue of ministry. What you have learned, God intends for you to share. I have a vision, and you, Beloved, are part of that vision. Our Lord's commission in Matthew 28 was that we make disciples of all men—that we teach them

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Ideas can be transmuted into cash through the power of definite purpose, plus definite plans.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!