Quotes About Purpose

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

Seeking with all of your heart requires more than just the routine Christian good girl checklist.

when you are chosen for suffering, you are chosen for the blessing of displaying the works of God

Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.

God, I recognize I am made for more than the vicious cycle of being ruled by food. I need to eat to live, not live to eat. So, I keep asking for Your wisdom to know what to eat and Your indwelling power to walk

God, I recognize I am made for more than the vicious cycle of being ruled by food. I need to eat to live, not live to eat. So, I keep asking for Your wisdom to know what to eat and Your indwelling power to walk away from things that are not beneficial for me.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart. Sometimes

If we are going to be true to ourselves, we'd better make sure we are being true to our most surrendered, healed, and healthy selves, the ones God made us to be.

God is good. He is way more interested in developing our characters to match our calling than in manipulating our circumstances to make us happy.

Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

You are exactly the mom God knew your children needed.

Though I've been saved for a long time, I want to recapture the essence of this "no other" reality.

The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.

Disappointment isn't proof that God is withholding good things from us. Sometimes it's His way of leading us Home.

God is interested in my character, not my comfort.

We are made for more because we are children of God.

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails (Proverbs 19:21). Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3). In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps (Proverbs 16:9).

Sometimes, though, when God calls us to be set apart for another purpose, it's difficult to believe God's goodness in the hurt.

He was handpicked to display the works of God.

Don't we all long to see God at work? His activity around us, in us, and through us is the greatest adventure there is. The God of the universe wants to use you!

Our life could have been very self-focused. Our marriage. Our home. Our kids. Our plans. Our life. But God wanted so much more from us. He didn't bring us together simply to build a life that would make us happy. He brought us together to be partners in the purpose He assigned. Our own strength would not have prepared us for kingdom assignments.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (PSALM 139:13 – 14)