Quotes about Purpose
Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.
— Philip Yancey
Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.
— Philip Yancey
Why are we here? We, all of us, are here because of the Creator's love, who seeks both our flourishing and our response of love and gratitude. "Find out what pleases the Lord," Paul told the Ephesians. We are here to please God. It brings God pleasure to see us thrive, and we thrive by living as God intended.
— Philip Yancey
Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?
— Philip Yancey
Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.
— Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
— Philip Yancey
He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
— Philip Yancey
Az ember az Ã…' számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference." — President Jimmy Carter
— Jimmy Carter
Hold your own plans loosely and stay ready to submit to His. Consider them to be more important, more desirable than anything you could dream up on your own. He has come down to you with intentionality and purpose because He loves you and knows that you are never more secure than when you're in His will.
— Priscilla Shirer
The word of the Lord is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.
— Priscilla Shirer
As we practice implementing this incredible power tool He's placed in our hands, He divinely positions us - even a little life like ours - in His grand purpose for the ages. Through the connective tissue of prayer, He cracks open the door that makes us at least a small part of how these massive plans of His are translated into the lives of people we know. Including ours.
— Priscilla Shirer