Quotes about Purpose

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.

Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

The wilderness trial of Christ is, at its core, a test of his identity. "If you are who you think you are... " If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

When we begin to offer not merely our gifts but our true selves, that is when we become powerful.

The adventures and work that we choose must fit the soul of the boy. One young man's adventure would be terrifying to another.

The outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose