Quotes about Purpose
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
— E Stanley Jones
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
— Euripides
God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.
— Francis Chan
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
— JD Greear
We are God's gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.
— Jack Canfield
Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.
— Jeff Henderson
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
— Jim Elliot
It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.
— Joel Osteen
God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.
— Joel Osteen
I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
— Joel Osteen
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
— John Calvin