Top 100 Quotes About Purpose Of God
#1. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#2. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
#3. As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all - we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.
Oswald Chambers
#4. There is no purpose for Christian scholarship outside the purpose of God that He is accomplishing in the church.
James R. White
#5. The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is.
A.W. Tozer
#6. By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.
Tony Evans
#7. the word predestinate refers not to election but to that decree or purpose of God by which he has ordained that his own bear the cross. In
John Calvin
#8. The purpose of God for creating earth can be seen as an assignment which he requires everyone he created to fulfil
Sunday Adelaja
#9. The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
Rowan Williams
#10. The purpose of God's calling ... is not to give His people a little enjoyment of the animal life and the vegetable life in Egypt; it is to bring them into a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.
Witness Lee
#11. To accomplish the purpose of God is to dwell where his presence and glory is
Sunday Adelaja
#13. An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
John Stott
#14. The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
John Stott
#15. A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history is not haphazard. There is a purpose in it all. And the purpose is the purpose of God.
Leon Morris
#16. Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not.
Che Ahn
#17. Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.
Charles S. Price
#18. Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.
Chuck Smith
#19. If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?
Orson Scott Card
#20. To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
William Temple
#21. The purpose of God is far greater than your own personal fulfillment or your peace of mind, or even your happiness, your family, your career or even your dreams and ambitions.
Moroaswi Tumiso Victor
#22. Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.
J.I. Packer
#23. If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.
David Platt
#24. Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself? ... And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus
Morris Cerullo
#25. We should do only those things that brings us closer to the purpose of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#27. My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, 'on earth as it is in Heaven.'
Bill Johnson
#28. The purpose of God as a creator is based in a profound need resident within the Godhead
Sunday Adelaja
#29. The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.
G. Campbell Morgan
#30. The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.
David Platt
#31. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#32. The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#33. 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
#34. The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things.
Pope Francis
#35. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.
Fazlur Rahman
#36. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#37. I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you'll have a head-on collision with your calling.
Renee Swope
#39. We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
Abraham Lincoln
#40. Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.
Charles J. Chaput
#41. God is waiting, heaven is waiting, and the heavenly army is waiting for us to move forward and accomplish the will of God
Sunday Adelaja
#42. 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
#43. The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
Fethullah Gulen
#44. God always makes a way of escape from complicated situations
Sunday Adelaja
#45. I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.
Terri Blackstock
#46. Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.
Joseph Hertz
#47. No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God's authority from the beginning: Increase and multiply.
Pope Leo XIII
#48. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam Nicolson
#49. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.
Paul Chappell
#50. purpose was not to make us worthy of God's love, but to set us free to see that we already have it. And
Wayne Jacobsen
#51. I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, to hope, to pray, to praise God and to fulfill my purpose of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#53. There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.
Paul P. Enns
#54. If you sincerely believe that God loves you, then you're not a victim of anything anymore. It's happening to open up opportunities for us to become more aligned with our higher purpose. I
Caroline Myss
#55. The Lord Jesus did not take to himself this honour of being a Mediator; he was called to it, appointed of God for such a purpose.
Philip Henry
#57. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#60. What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.
Clayton Christensen
#61. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.
Ross Paterson
#62. The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
#63. The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Rick Warren
#64. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#65. Wine is God's special drink. The purpose of good wine is to inspire us to a livelier sense of gratitude to God. - John Calvin
Lauren F. Winner
#66. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.
Billy Graham
#67. Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
Russell Simmons
#68. Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.
Surya Das
#70. Do not look for a man to learn about the purpose of your life, but look for the creator, who is your maker
Sunday Adelaja
#71. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God
Sunday Adelaja
#72. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation
Sunday Adelaja
#73. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.
Mike Bickle
#74. Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.
Elizabeth George
#75. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
Sunday Adelaja
#76. The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#77. My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
Phil Jackson
#78. Point to Ponder: If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God.
Rick Warren
#79. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#81. Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#82. The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.
Alan Cohen
#83. The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.
Max Lucado
#84. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.
John Piper
#85. The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men
Sunday Adelaja
#86. It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.
Richard W. Kelly
#87. I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
Nick Vujicic
#88. As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.
Lisa Bevere
#90. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.
Lance Berkman
#91. Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
Oswald Chambers
#92. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .
John Gwynne
#93. Jesus made it possible for humanity to host the fullness of God on the earth. The Holy Spirit has empowered us to carry out this purpose.
Bill Johnson
#94. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim God's plan and passion to save his children. That is the reason this book has endured through the centuries. It is the treasure map that leads us to God's highest treasure: eternal life.
Max Lucado
#95. In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
Radhanath Swami
#96. Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life.
What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.
Rick Warren
#97. Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. God will never leave nor forsake you even at the time of the most difficult trials
Sunday Adelaja
#100. 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
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