Quotes about Purpose

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or his gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ himself.1 —LIU ZHENYING (KNOWN AS BROTHER YUN)

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it.

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.

The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.