Quotes about Purpose

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

That's the beautiful mystery: we have a God who chooses to need us. We have a God who doesn't want to change the world without us. We have a God who longs to cooperate with us, to allow us to fail and flounder and who promises to make up for our shortcomings, but nonetheless wants us.

this: for some strange reason, God doesn't want to change the world without us. There are times when we throw our hands up at God and say, "Do something!" and if we listen closely, we can hear God respond, "I did do something. I made you." Sometimes we are waiting on God, and God is waiting on us. When

between God's permissive will and God's perfect will. This

Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.