Quotes about Purpose

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.

The glory of God is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So

The reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself.

Let then the faithful learn to embrace him, not only for justification, but also for sanctification, as he has been given to us for both these purposes, lest they rend him asunder by their mutilated faith.

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.

Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God.

As far as pertains to those secret promptings we are discussing, Solomon's statement that the heart of a king is turned about hither and thither at God's pleasure [Prov. 21:1] certainly extends to all the human race, and carries as much weight as if he had said: "Whatever we conceive of in our minds is directed to his own end by God's secret inspiration."

The word predestinate refers not to election but to that decree or purpose of God by which he has ordained that his own bear the cross.