Quotes about Purpose

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission.14

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission — God's mission. Chris Wright

Mission arises from the heart of God himself, and is communicated from his heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.