Quotes About Purpose

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—yes, establish the work of our hands!

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.

Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.

Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.