Quotes about Purpose
God wants us dead. Or better: God wants us to get used to the need to die, not once, but as a pattern for our lives.
— Peter Enns
Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.
— Peter Enns
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
— Genesis 2:19
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
— Genesis 37:15
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
— Genesis 45:7
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
— Genesis 45:8
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
— Genesis 50:20
And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
— Exodus 4:2
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
— Exodus 4:11
So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?
— Exodus 5:22
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
— Exodus 9:16
Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
— Numbers 24:23