Quotes about Purpose

The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.

Your job is not merely a place to earn a paycheck. It is an arena in which God wants to use you to influence others for the kingdom.

Moses came to understand that his involvement in God's work was in the context of hundreds of years of divine activity. When Moses came face to face with the same God who had guided his forefathers, he was deeply humbled. Do you sense that your life is a part of God's eternal purposes?

Your relationship to God is the single most important aspect of your life. If that is not in order, nothing else will be.

Oswald Sanders asked, Should it not be the office that seeks the man, rather than the man the office?2

There is a great difference between "living the Christian life" and allowing Christ to live His life through you.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.