Quotes About Purpose

This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.

Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ëGo up against this land and destroy it.í”

Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ëYou are My servant.í I have chosen and not rejected you.

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you.

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ëWhat are you making?í Does your work say, ëHe has no handsí?