Quotes about Purpose
When God created you, He put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny. Now quit telling yourself what you can't do and how it's not going to work out. All that's doing is draining your strength.
— Joel Osteen
He's given you gifts, creativity, and dreams. He created you to leave your mark on this generation. You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew you were here. There is something significant about you, something that will cause you to stand out to the point where, years from now, people will look back and say, "You made the world a better place.
— Joel Osteen
What God has put in you, He's still going to bring to pass. You are pregnant with destiny. You are pregnant with greatness. It's not going to come through others. You're going to shine. You're going to excel. You're going to be promoted. You're going to be celebrated. You are fully loaded. You're not at a deficit. You're not lacking. You're full of potential, full of favor.
— Joel Osteen
You're not too old; you didn't miss your chance. God's already put that seed in your spirit. If you'll stir it up, start living passionately, you're going to see God show out in your life.
— Joel Osteen
You're not going to be sure how it's all going to work out, but that is what will cause you to grow, that's when you'll learn to trust God in a greater way. God is not interested only in the destination. He's teaching you along the way; He's getting you prepared and growing you up. He will lead you purposefully into situations where you're in over your head, your friends can't help you, and you don't have the experience you think you need.
— Joel Osteen
The delays, closed doors, people that walked away, were necessary. It was setting you up for this moment. The delay doesn't mean that God said no; it just wasn't the right time.
— Joel Osteen
Stir up what God has put on the inside ... You have to have a reason to get out of bed each morning, something that motivates you, something that you are passionate about.
— Joel Osteen
Your job is not to try and make people like you. Your job is not to try to change people's minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.
— Joel Osteen
In Christ's first coming, He implemented a rescue plan conceived in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. He did not come to promote holiday cheer, boost end-of-year sales, or serve as the central figure in a Nativity scene. He came to save sinners. To save sinners, Christ had to put away what makes people sinners—namely, sin.
— Joel Beeke
The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.
— Deepak Chopra
Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.
— Joel Osteen
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
— John Eldredge