Quotes About Purpose

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.

Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Tienes todo lo que necesitas para vivir como Dios quiere que vivas!

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

Se requiere la mano redentora de Dios para que yo renuncie al propósito de mi reino y vaya tras el Suyo.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.