Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?

God will not let your needs and wants go unattended, especially when you desire to be more like Him.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.

If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.