Quotes about Purpose

it is very surprising to me that so many Christians who read the Scriptures do not see this. Yet maybe they cannot answer a second call because they have not yet completed the first task. Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

As Mary Oliver puts it, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

Far too many people just keep doing repair work on the container itself and never "throw their nets into the deep" (John 21:6)

If you don't walk into the seond half of your own life, it is you who does not want it.

There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong "container" or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.

Jesus did not come to die on the cross so that He could meet with us a couple of times a week. He came to be our life. This is our ultimate calling and purpose: for Jesus to be our life so that we can manifest the life and power that is found in Him.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.