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Quotes About Purpose

...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
~ Francis Chan
God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.
~ Francis Collins
God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.
~ Frederick Lenz
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
~ George Herbert
Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
~ George Wigram
People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.
~ Gerald Nicosia
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
God is only God when he is acting as such.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.
~ Grace Aguilar
I am here because God is there.
~ Graham Kerr
I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.
~ Gretchen Carlson
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
~ Helen Keller
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
~ Henri Nouwen
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
~ Henri Nouwen
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
~ Horace Mann
God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship, we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.
~ J. B. Torrance
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
~ J. Carter Brown
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.
~ Jack White
It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.
~ James Cook
I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.
~ James E. Faust
I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.
~ James Taylor
Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.
~ Jan Brewer