Quotes About Purpose

My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

World vision is getting on your heart what has always been on God's heart.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams

God's priority isn't your destination but your development. God's priority isn't the dream but the dreamer.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.