Quotes about Purpose

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Our purpose (in relationship) is to get what we want but God's purpose is to give us what we really need. We think things are going well only if we are getting along with others. But God says that it is also when we are not getting along with others that he is accomplishing his purpose. God has designed our relationship to function as both a diagnosis and a cure.

Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.