Top 100 Quotes About God's Purposes
#1. "Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own ... "[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.
George W. Bush
#2. Often God's purposes become most clear when we are truly ready.
Jennifer Delamere
#3. So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#4. Time is redeemed when you make the most of your life by fulfilling God's purposes.
Elizabeth George
#5. Real success is not rooted in positions, places or possessions, but in fulfilment of God's purposes for our lives.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#6. Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't. You simply ask, "Does this activity help me fulfill one of God's purposes for my life?
Rick Warren
#7. God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.
Louie Giglio
#8. You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
Rick Warren
#9. The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#10. Let God make you fully you. Rejoice in your God-given temperament and use it for God's purposes. This point cannot be emphasized enough. We must be authentic. If we try to be someone we are not, people will see it instantly.
Adam S. McHugh
#11. Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.
Jim George
#12. As long as we try to fill this yearning with things other than God and activities other than God's purposes, we are unfulfilled and incomplete.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
#13. How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?
Os Hillman
#14. Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.
George Foster
#15. Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
David Shibley
#16. The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#17. God's call on our lives is often surprising and usually is based on God's ability to see how our various elements in the past might fit together to accomplish God's purposes in the present.
Adam Hamilton
#18. My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.
Gordon Dalbey
#19. Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.
Virginia Postrel
#20. Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
Chuck Smith
#21. God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
Ann Voskamp
#22. I hope reading this book will convince you of something: that by surrendering yourself totally to God's purposes, He will bring you the most pleasure in this life and the next.
Francis Chan
#23. True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives - that is, our time and choices - to God's purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.
D. Todd Christofferson
#24. God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
Elizabeth George
#25. Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.
Michael Horton
#26. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.
Rick Warren
#27. [God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.
James MacDonald
#28. What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
Thomas Goodwin
#29. We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
Rick Warren
#30. Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.
David A. Bednar
#31. To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.
Eric Metaxas
#32. His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.
Jentezen Franklin
#33. But God doesn't just hang there while we get on with the rest of our week. He's up to a lot of other really cool stuff. Let's follow Him around and be part of it. I'm in! Are you?
Bonnie Lyn Smith
#34. Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
S.D. Gordon
#35. in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.
Edward T. Welch
#36. Christian life isn't a one-person race. It's a relay. You are not alone; you're part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.
Christine Caine
#37. God does not exercise an alien domination of the world but a liberating lordship that sets creation free; God's rule lets family, culture, government, and church fulfill their created purposes, both distinct from and related to one another, and without any usurped heteronomy of one over the other.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#38. To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,
James Davison Hunter
#39. Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.
Arthur W. Pink
#40. Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
James Hudson Taylor
#41. Intercession is speaking and singing God's heart back to Him. He has made His plans and purposes known to us in His Word. We are to discern His will and call it forth in faith and partnership with Him, and He answers by stretching out His hand in authority.
Anna Blanc
#42. Behind Caroline was her schoolroom full of bright, eager students. God had given them to her as a gift, to show her that the sacrifices she'd made did have meaning. His purposes for her life would be partly fulfilled in them, and in those children's futures.
Lynn Austin
#43. In God's hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes.
Elizabeth George
#44. To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.
Bryan Chapell
#45. Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
Luci Shaw
#46. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
Thomas S. Monson
#47. When we practice good delegation - stewardship delegation - we are not simply enabling ourselves to get more done. We are serving others and building them up according to God's own purposes for his people.
Matt Perman
#48. God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.
George W. Bush
#49. My purposes do not always include God's good. I am a sinner.
R.C. Sproul
#50. God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.
Dillon Burroughs
#51. The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
R.J. Rushdoony
#52. Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.
Andy Crouch
#53. And holiness shall then be as it were inscribed on every thing, on all men's common business and employments, and the common utensils of life: all shall be dedicated to God, and applied to holy purposes: every thing shall then be done to the glory of God
Jonathan Edwards
#54. One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God has
dominion over the universe.
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Here is life's essential purpose - to worship God in spirit and in truth (see John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual.
Ravi Zacharias
#56. Ne of the purposes for which God instituted prayer may have been to bear witness that the course of events is not governed like a state but created like a work of art to which every being makes a conscious contribution, and in which every being is both a means and an end.
C.S. Lewis
#57. America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
Ezra Taft Benson
#58. Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. This is one of God's great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever!
Timothy J. Keller
#60. Food is a gift of God given to all creatures for the purposes of life's nurture, sharing, and celebration. When it is done in the name of God, eating is the earthly realization of God's eternal communion-building love.
Norman Wirzba
#61. Gradually, Hopkins came to see that his battles with despair and darkness were somehow included in God's loving purposes.
Wesley Hill
#62. You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways
Henry Blackaby
#63. That's how I think of God: infinitely creative and imaginative, waiting to place us in some truly awesome scenarios.
Bonnie Lyn Smith
#64. I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.
Dolly Parton
#65. Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God's plan and purposes for your life.
Elizabeth George
#66. God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.
David Berg
#67. Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".
Fulton J. Sheen
#69. For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. ... The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.
Kai Meyer
#70. As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.
David A. Bednar
#71. By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.
Bryan Chapell
#72. Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.
Bryan Chapell
#73. They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.
Bernard Malamud
#74. Right now, God is inviting you to live for his glory by fulfilling the purposes he made you for. It's really the only way to live. Everything else is just existing.
Rick Warren
#75. May we be faithful to observe our own lives, be humble enough to admit our sins, and resilient enough to let God realign us toward his purposes.
Holly Sprink
#76. Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.
Ameen Rihani
#77. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.
Amos Wilson
#78. God's great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. As you read God's Word, always remember that it is something active, that it is doing something to you, for better or worse. When we hear or read the Word, we are not above it, using it for our own purposes. Rather, in the Word, God is doing something to us.
Anonymous
#80. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Oswald Chambers
#81. Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#82. It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.
Louis Berkhof
#83. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?
Rick Warren
#84. Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
William James
#85. The money that has been given to us by God should be put to working God's kingdom and for His purposes
Sunday Adelaja
#86. One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.
Stormie O'martian
#87. Most of us like thinking we are God's only children ... At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#88. God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.
Craig S. Keener
#89. The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
Tullian Tchividjian
#90. Exploitations for other purposes happens only when we are living outside the design of the creator's intention
Sunday Adelaja
#91. The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil doings of the wicked serve good purposes.
Augustine Of Hippo
#92. If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
Francis Chan
#93. We can always hope and pray diligently for a miracle. If, in God's sovereignty, He chooses to accomplish His purposes another way, let it not be that we have not because we asked not (James 4:2) or that we have not because we believed not (Matt. 9:29).
Beth Moore
#94. Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an affirmation of His sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and Glory
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#95. There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.
Alistair Begg
#96. Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.
Grace Aguilar
#97. Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
Louie Giglio
#99. Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act like God does exist, then in essence, She does.
Chris Hollenback
#100. It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
William P. Young
