Quotes about Purpose

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Here is life's essential purpose — to worship God in spirit and in truth (see John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual.

When God brings us to salvation, the most remarkable thing we see is that he transforms our hungers. He changes not just what we do but what we want to do. This is the work of the Holy Spirit within us — "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.

Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.