Quotes about Purpose
We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.
- Desmond Tutu
God is not a diversion.
- Desmond Tutu
God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
- Desmond Tutu
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
- Desmond Tutu
All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
- Dolly Parton
I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
- Dolly Parton
The universe does not make sense without God.
- E Stanley Jones
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
- Elisabeth Elliot
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
- Francine Rivers
God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?
- Francis Chan
If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
- Francis Chan