Quotes About Purpose

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in oneís youth.

The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my motherís womb.

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.