Quotes About Purpose

No matter how far off the path you have gotten from the plans and purposes God has for you, when you surrender your life to the Lord and declare your utter dependence upon Him, He carves a path from where you are to where you are supposed to be, and He sets you on it.

Lord, today I ask for a renewed sense of purpose in my smaller daily choices, knowing that how I spend each moment is how I live my life. Every choice matters.

Until we have aligned ourselves properly with God, nothing in life will fall into place as it should.

God, I want to show my love, reverence, devotion, and appreciation for You as I lift You up in worship. I praise You for who You are and for all You have done in this world and in my life. Help me to live every day with praise and thanksgiving in my heart so that I will fulfill my greatest purpose and calling on this earth—which is to worship and glorify You.

Heavenly Father, give me a vision of all You want to do in my life. Help me to not think too small, even when I pray. I want to be available to whatever You have for me and not limit Your blessings by being unprepared to receive them. Enlarge my heart and mind to understand how You can take what I have and expand it beyond what I can imagine.

But Ecclesiastes tells us, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." God's timing is not the same as ours. His ways are not our ways.

While you may not be able to understand exactly what God is doing, you can trust that He is doing something. He has your best interests at heart. And He will make everything in your life beautiful in His perfect time.

God sometimes uses a man's physical ailments to get his attention so He can speak to him.

The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do. And we must not go to battle without the things we need in order to win.

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Lord, speak to me about Your will for my life so that I can always walk in it. Your will is a place of safety and protection for me, and I need to know I am headed in the right direction. Help me to hear Your voice speaking to my heart telling me what to do, especially with regard to the decisions I need to make each day of my life.

A political party without a higher purpose is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate. No one asks what is the greater good OPEC is trying to achieve. Its purpose is to sell oil at the highest prices possible. So it is with today's Republican Party. It is a cartel that exists to elect Republicans. There is no organized, coherent purpose other than the acquisition and maintenance of power.

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The trade-off is a surety of purpose that eludes so many people living in today's world of constantly shifting values and expectations. "We feel like we are the only people on earth walking around with a sense of purpose. We feel we know who we are and where we are going.

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.

Everything happens for a reason but that doesn't mean there is a point.

I'm not a process person. I like goals and closure, the arrival instead of the journey itself.

There's no point to anything if you get right down to it. We could all blow out brains out, but we don't.

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself Beloved on the Earth." —Raymond Carver

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University makes the point that, "In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you are playing.

As Yogi Berra said, "If you don't know where you're going, you will wind up somewhere else.

God loved you before you were born, and God will love you after you die. In Scripture, God says, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love.' This is the fundamental truth of your identity. This is who you are, whether you feel it or not. You belong to God from eternity to eternity. Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, 'I love you too.