Quotes about Purpose
Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
— 2 Chronicles 2:1
I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
— Nehemiah 2:12
So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
— Nehemiah 4:6
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
— Nehemiah 6:3
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
— Esther 4:14
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
— Job 1:21
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
— Job 3:11
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
— Job 3:12
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
— Job 3:20
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
— Job 3:23
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
— Job 7:17
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
— Job 10:8