Quotes about Purpose

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

If the cause is worthy the cost is irrelevant!

The church, for far too long, has been more interested in its seating capacity than in its sending capacity.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.