Quotes about Purpose
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
- Shauna Niequist
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
- Rick Warren
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
- Hudson Taylor
We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.
- Rick Warren
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.
- Francis Asbury
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
- Mark Batterson
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
- Craig Groeschel
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
- Thomas Merton
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin