Quotes about Purpose

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

God didn't give us his grace in order to make our little claustrophobic kingdoms of one work, but to invite us to a much, much better kingdom.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.