Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

As actors, we do have certain powers. I want to use them for the right cause.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

I feel it's God's work to convey a message.

God gave me talent, He gave me gifts in order to magnify Him.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

Here is the difference between hope with Jesus and hope without Jesus. Hope without Jesus is waiting for your position or circumstance to change. To be waiting and hoping that someday things aren't how they are now. There is nothing wrong with waiting for a miracle, but some miracles don't always come. Life without Jesus is a life without purpose.

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.