Quotes about Purpose
have equipped you for specific work that I will enable you to do. What things do you need to say no to in preparation for doing this work?
— Sarah Young
This is the path I have set before you. As you follow it wholeheartedly, you experience abundant Life and Peace.
— Sarah Young
Evaluate how well you are handling the adversity in your life. I don't waste anything, including your suffering.
— Sarah Young
You are increasingly released to become the one I created you to be.
— Sarah Young
God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone.
— Scot McKnight
We can begin to focus on the eternal if we live to love God and others (the Jesus Creed), if we pursue justice as the way we are called to love others as God's creations, if we live out a life that drives for peace as how loving people treat one another, and if we strive for wisdom instead of just knowledge or bounty.
— Scot McKnight
kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.
— Scot McKnight
In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
— Scot McKnight
Let your life speak.
— Scot McKnight
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
— Scot McKnight
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
— Zig Ziglar
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
— Abraham Lincoln