Quotes about Purpose

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.