Quotes about Purpose
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
— Francis Chan
In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.
— Francis Frangipane
Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
— Frank Herbert
From the human perspective, the purpose of the church meeting is mutual edification. But from God's perspective, the purpose of the gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one's body is to express the life that's within it.)
— Frank Viola
The fact is, Jesus was the greatest human being who ever lived, and if all we have to look forward to in life is the frustration of trying to be someone we are not, then we've got better ways of enjoying the interval between birth and death. But the "good news" is that Jesus /doesn't/ want us to be "like" Him. He wants to share His resurrection life with us. He doesn't want us to imitate Him; instead, Christ, the Unspeakable Gift, wants to live in and through us.
— Frank Viola
Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?
— Frank Viola
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.
— Frank Viola
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.
— Fred Smith
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
— Frederick Buechner