Quotes about Purpose

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

As you struggle, you must not view your marriage as bad luck, or poor planning, or as a mess that you made for yourself. No, God is right smack-dab in the middle of your struggle. He is not surprised by what you are facing today. He is up to something.

Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

It is sad how many people constantly live in the schizophrenic craziness of eternity amnesia. We were created to live in a forever relationship with a forever God forever. We were designed to live based on a long view of life. We were made to live with one eye on now and one eye on eternity. You and I simply cannot live as we were put together to live without forever.

The purpose of God's grace is not to make your little kingdom of one work better.

The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

So in grace, God has designed us to regularly gather together and remember the things that are worth living for.