Quotes about Legacy

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Noah got drunk, which led to his grandson Canaan being cursed (Gen. 9:25).

The inescapable conclusion is that Washington was a Christian.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.