Quotes about Purpose

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.

Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.