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Quotes About Purpose

What does God want me to do?", not "What will God do if I do so and so?
~ George MacDonald
You know your general purpose is to become a Co-worker with God. So how do you identify your personal goal?
~ Harold Klemp
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
~ Henri Nouwen
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
~ Horace Bushnell
[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.
~ James MacDonald
God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.
~ James Robison
How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.
~ James Stalker
God never allows pain without a purpose.
~ Jerry Bridges
God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
~ Jerry Bridges
There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you'll be happy and fulfilled, and where you'll be using your gifts and talents to the full.
~ Joel Osteen
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
~ John Henry Newman
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
~ John Masefield
The Bible does not say you are God's appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
~ John Ortberg
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
~ John Owen
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.
~ John Piper
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
~ John Piper
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
~ Joyce Meyer
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.
~ Kevin DeYoung
I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
~ Larry Norman
It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them
~ Mark Batterson
If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
~ Mark Batterson