God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength.
Purpose
John C. Maxwell
A difficult crisis can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Was God absentmindedly doodling in creation – the way we do, sketching out houses and stick people to amuse ourselves when we are bored? No, the universe shows every sign of having been created on purpose. Did God tell himself he had to create or else he couldn’t be God? No, God was free either to create or not to create. He is sovereign. It was up to him whether to make a universe.
Howard G. Hendricks
God is looking for one man, one woman, who will become His personal representative…God wants me to be available – His messenger boy, a suit of clothes in His ready-to-wear department that He could put on at will to accomplish His purpose.
Billy Sunday
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
David Smithers
Until we reach for the impossible through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will never fulfill our created purpose!
C. S. Lewis
I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Even to ourselves come afflictions that we cannot understand, and Satan seems so busy in the matter that it is hard to trace the hand of the Lord in it at all. But His hand is in it nevertheless, and He overrules everything. No trial comes except by His permission and for some wise and loving purpose which perhaps only eternity will disclose.
C. S. Lewis
The world does not need more Christian writers — it needs more good writers and composers who are Christians.
Selwyn Hughes
Father, impress upon me that not only do You desire truth in my inner parts but You have designed my being to function on truth. Unless I live in the truth and by the the truth I violate the structure of my being.