Quotes About Purpose

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

Happiness is activity of soul.

At the end of the day what makes a difference was our time with Him at the beginning of the day!