Quotes About Purpose

If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.

The End for Which God Created the World

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

H]ealing displays the works of God in John 9, and sustaining grace displays the works of God in 2 Corinthians 12. What is common in the two cases is the supreme value of the glory of God. The blindness is for the glory of God. The thorn in the flesh is for the glory of God. The healing is for his glory, and the non-healing is for his glory. Suffering can only have ultimate meaning in relation to God.

Thinking is not just entertainment on the stage of life where nothing is real. It is really useful in knowing the God who is really there. It is useful in knowing what God has revealed about himself and about this world and how we should live in it.

The global scope and seriousness of the coronavirus is too great for God to waste. It will serve his invincible global purpose of world evangelization. Christ has not shed his blood in vain. And Revelation 5:9 says that by that blood he ransomed "people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation." He will have the reward of his suffering. And even pandemics will serve to complete the Great Commission.

Therefore, one of God's purposes in the coronavirus is that his people put to death self-pity and fear, and give themselves to good deeds in the presence of danger. Christians lean toward need, not comfort. Toward love, not safety. That's what our Savior is like. That is what he died for.

No siempre tuve en claro que la búsqueda de la gloria de Dios sería prácticamente lo mismo que la búsqueda de mi propio gozo. Ahora veo que millones de personas desperdician sus vidas porque creen que estos caminos son dos senderos diferentes y no el mismo.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8

Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.

La soberanía que puede detener el coronavirus y no lo ha hecho, es la misma soberanía que sostiene el alma en medio de la pandemia. De hecho, más que sostenerla, la endulza. La endulza con la esperanza de que los propósitos de Dios son buenos, incluso en la muerte, para los que confían en Él

will think of the Lord in what we are doing at work. We will ask, Why would the Lord like this done? How would the Lord like this done? When would the Lord like this done? Will the Lord help me do this? What effect will this have for the Lord's honor? Being a Christian at work means radically Lord-centered living.

What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

I am immortal till Christ's work for me to do is done.

por el bien de las almas perecederas pero inmortales, por el bien de Sion y la gloria de Dios?

God's work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible.

El fin principal del hombre es glorificar a Dios y gozar de Él para siempre".2 Gozar de Dios es la manera de glorificar a Dios porque Dios se glorifica más en nosotros cuando nosotros estamos más satisfechos en Él.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And? Like ham and eggs? Sometimes you glorify God and sometimes you enjoy Him? Sometimes He gets glory, sometimes you get joy?

God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible

Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts?

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." 2 Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

I exist to magnify Jesus Christ. That is, I am on this planet for one ultimate reason: to do whatever I can to make Jesus Christ known and treasured—a knowing and a treasuring that accords with his infinite beauty and immeasurable worth.

God created me-and you-to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.