Quotes about Purpose

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to.

Your Heavenly Father's love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

Paul's suffering was neither corrective nor instructive. It was simply permitted by God so that the gospel might spread to others.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt every day of our lives. Question to ask: Where has God put me right now? I need to say no to a whole bunch of other things because if I don't say no I can't say yes to others.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life - and that's putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle.

If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.