Quotes About Purpose

Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ëGo, prophesy to My people Israel.í

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ëThe time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.í”

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Then the angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

As the strong horses went out, they were eager to go and patrol the earth; and the LORD said, “Go and patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?