Quotes about Purpose

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

Prayer can detonate mission.

The Bible's diversity is the key to uncovering the Bible's true purpose for us.

I believe that God knows best what sort of sacred writing we need. And these three characteristic ways the Bible behaves, rather than posing problems to be overcome, are telling us something about how the Bible actually works and therefore what the Bible's true purpose is—and the need to align our expectations with it.

It seems, then, that the purpose of 3:14—15 is not to introduce a new name, but to underscore the precise identity of the God who is now addressing Moses.

God wants us dead. Or better: God wants us to get used to the need to die, not once, but as a pattern for our lives.

Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.