Quotes about Meaning
Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't. You simply ask, "Does this activity help me fulfill one of God's purposes for my life?
— Rick Warren
Henri Nouwen said, "In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others…. thus we become free to be compassionate." When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.
— Rick Warren
Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
— Rick Warren
serving is the highest use of life
— Rick Warren
Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life. What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.
— Rick Warren
it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.
— Rick Warren
DAY 6 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: This world is not my home. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 (NIV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: How should the fact that life on earth is just a temporary assignment change the way I am living right now?
— Rick Warren
God has … planted eternity in the human heart. ECCLESIASTES 3:11 (NLT) Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
— Rick Warren
God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
— Rick Warren
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
— Kathleen Norris
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
— Aristotle
...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
— Frederick Buechner