Quotes about Purposeful

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

Spend time doing things that matter.

He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That's the meaning of Advent.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.

Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven.