Quotes about Purpose

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.