Quotes about Purpose
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
- Marilyn Monroe
Why stake your life on a world that is coming apart, instead of a kingdom that is coming together.
- Mario Murillo
We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
- Mark Batterson
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical.
- Mark Batterson
God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -The Circle Maker-
- Mark Batterson
In every dream journey there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. You have to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
- Mark Batterson
You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.
- Mark Batterson
Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And that's why so many people are half alive. They haven't died to self yet.
- Mark Batterson
We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.
- Mark Batterson
What if you knew you wouldn't fail--what would you do? What if time and money weren't an object--what God-sized goal would you go after? If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. The same is true of opportunity.
- Mark Batterson
The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?
- Mark Batterson