Quotes About Purpose

God created everything with potential.

Purpose propels those who are committed to God's plans through the worst of experiences.

Whenever we use our time to do things that neither release our potential nor help us progress toward the accomplishment of our purpose, we forfeit or delay the opportunity to reach the excellency and completion God intended for our lives.

If man is to realize and maximize his true potential, a relationship with God is not an option.

The purpose [of a thing] establishes the demands to be placed on the product, and the demands determine its potential.

Purpose is the raw material for your prayer life.

Prayer should not be open-ended. It should be purpose-driven, motivated by a knowledge of God's ways and intentions.

Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter. Focus on what truly makes you happy.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.

As we reflect on the value of resolving to do better, let us determine to discipline ourselves to carefully select the resolutions we make, to consider the purpose for making them, and finally to make commitments for keeping them and not letting any obstacle stop us. Let us remind ourselves at the beginning of each day that we can keep a resolution just for that day.

Medicine, law, banking--these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! - Mr. Keating, Dead Poet's Society.

Medicine, law, banking - these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

Metaphors are so prevalent that if one were to specifically look out for them it would spoil completely one's reading and listening, and thus detract from the author's purpose.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to usurp God's role. It is the humble, obedient carrying out of the role that has been assigned. The real arrogance would be to refuse the vocation, imagining that we know better than God the purpose for which we have been put here.

What the Bible offers is not a "works contract," but a covenant of vocation. The vocation in question is that of being a genuine human being, with genuinely human tasks to perform as part of the Creator's purpose for his world.

According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a vocation to play a vital part in God's purposes for the world.

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.

In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.

Those who belong to Jesus are called, here and now, in the power of the Spirit, to be agents of that putting-to-rights purpose.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world.

The divine purpose through Israel for the world is the subject of the passages both before and after 3:21–26. There is every reason, therefore, for taking "God's righteousness" in 3:21 in its normal biblical sense of "covenant faithfulness.

within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.