Quotes About Purpose

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

You are a little god on earth running around.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.

What does God need with a starship?

Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

God is action - let us be like God.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

What does God want me to do with the resources, time, and talents He has given me?

God does not have problems. Only plans.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Decide that you don't mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.