Quotes about Purpose
What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.
— John Eldredge
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
— John Eldredge
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
— John Eldredge
You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?
— John Eldredge
And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.
— John Eldredge
Jesus, I give my heart to your kingdom; I am made for your kingdom and nothing else will do.
— John Eldredge
Life will provide a thousand sessions for raising the warrior God calls you to be. Turn your radar on during the day, and intentionally don't take the path of least resistance.
— John Eldredge
The most essential gift you have to give is yourself.
— John Eldredge
And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.
— John Eldredge
What man is a man who does not make the world better?
— John Eldredge
Jesus lived the way he did in this world, for this world, because his hope was set beyond this world; that is the secret of his life. "Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God" (Hebrews 12:2 THE MESSAGE).
— John Eldredge
God rarely forces a man to do something against his will, because God would far and above prefer that he didn't have to, that the man wills to do the will of God. "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15 NIV). What God is after is a man so yielded to him, so completely surrendered, that his heart is easily moved by the Spirit of God to the purposes of God. That kind of heart makes for a good king.
— John Eldredge