Quotes About Purpose

Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

God is not a diversion.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

The universe does not make sense without God.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?