Quotes about Purpose
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Proverbs 16:9
Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
- Proverbs 19:21
A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
- Proverbs 20:24
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
- Proverbs 29:18
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:3
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
What does the worker gain from his toil?
- Ecclesiastes 3:9