Purpose Of God Quotes:

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

- Rick Warren

topic: Faith, Christian, Godly, Focus On Yourself, Coffee Cup

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Purpose, Hell, Christ, Purpose Of God

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

- Rick Warren

topic: Purpose, God Life, Significance, Without God, Purpose Driven Life

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Purpose, Insignificant, Purpose Of God

The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

- Brian Houston

source: Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia

topic: Blessed, Blessing, Impact, Purpose Of God, Blessing To Others

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

- David F. Wells

source: Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Evil, Purpose, Sovereignty, Purpose Of God

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Prayer, Purpose, Purpose Of God

Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.

- Reinhard Bonnke

topic: Mean, Purpose, Purpose Of God

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

- John Piper

topic: Christian, Inspiration, Passion, Purpose Of God

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

- James Robison

topic: Challenges, Purpose, Use, Purpose Of God, Higher Purpose

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

- G. Campbell Morgan

topic: Men, Purpose, Power Of God, Purpose Of God

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.125, NavPress

topic: Christian, Discipline, Purpose, Purpose Of God

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

- John Piper

topic: Adversity, Son, Grace, Glorification, Purpose Of God

Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.

- Gregory Beale

topic: Soul, Suffering, Purpose, Brokenness, Deep Soul

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

- Chuck Smith

topic: Prayer, Doe, Purpose, Purpose Of God, Lenten

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

- George MacDonald

topic: God, Mean, Simple, Purpose Of God

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

source: J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.92, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Men, Foundation, Purpose, Spoken Word, Inviting

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

topic: Christian, Lying, Community, Purpose Of God, Afterthought

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

topic: Heart, Imagination, Mind, Holiness Of God, Purpose Of God

Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

- Timothy Keller

source: "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

topic: God, Pain, Mean, Purpose Of God

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Purpose, Purpose Of God

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

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

topic: Giving, Important, Purpose, Purpose Of God

The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: Sad, God, Faith, Purpose Of God

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

- Thomas Brooks

topic: Spring, Past, Men, Jacob, Foreseen

Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos…provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed—but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.

- Marva Dawn

topic: Kings, Successful, Opportunity, Utilitarian, Regal

It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.

- Pope Leo I

topic: Christian, Father, Son, Acknowledge Him, Purpose Of God

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

- Alfred the Great

source: 'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 5

topic: Destiny, Purpose, Embrace, Purpose Of God

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

topic: Jesus, Blood, Drawing, Love And Affection, Bright Future

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

- Charles S. Price

topic: Purpose, Defeated, Reason, Purpose Of God

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

- Gary Kinnaman

source: Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

topic: Angel, Men, Play, Purpose Of God

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

source: "God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens". 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Art, Giving, Singleness, Purpose Of God

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

topic: Brother, Jesus, Purpose, Morris, Purpose Of God

The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

source: "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.

topic: Country, Independent, Army, Calumny Is, Purpose Of God

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

topic: Children, Desire, Needs, Purpose Of God, Fabricate

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

topic: Waiting, Purpose, Trust In God, Purpose Of God

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.

- Pierre Bayle

topic: Men, Wrath, Offering, Multiplying, Purpose Of God

When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.

- Wilford Woodruff

source: Wilford Woodruff (1946). “The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff”

topic: Loss, Thinking, Accomplishment, Fallen World, Departed Friends

For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.

- David Bentley Hart

topic: Evil, Suffering, Forgiving, Purpose Of God