Quotes about Purpose
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
- Ann Voskamp
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
- Anne Lamott
I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.
- Barack Obama
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.
- Bill Johnson
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
- Billy Graham
The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
- CS Lewis
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
- Calvin Coolidge
I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
- Clay Aiken
The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.
- Matt Chandler
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.
- Timothy Keller
When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.
- Bishop TD Jakes