Quotes about Purpose

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

He did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.

Once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

It's true of Jamie. But I want it to be true of you too. And for that matter, me. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle. Jamie, Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.

Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe, Andrew would say.

PERHAPS ONE OF the reasons I've avoided having a clear ambition is that second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose. It's always been this way.