Quotes about Purpose

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

What is the big vision that you're working toward? What is the big dream you are investing in? What is your definition of the "good life"? When will you know that you have been successful? If you had it all, what would "all" look like?

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.