Quotes about Purpose

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

As J. C. Ryle said, "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within." 5 We are united to Christ for a purpose: "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight" (Eph. 1:4). Our new life in Christ is just that: new life. A glorious fight against the world, the flesh, and the devil is at its heart and one of the clearest signs of our union with him.

When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

One thing my mother told was to go for what you believe and do something that will allow you to inspire others.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.