Quotes about Purpose

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.

Your success is not determined by what you have, but by what you do with what you have.

Eventaully you can see that your pain was part of a much larger picture that God was carefully painting.

Always remember that no matter what you have lost, you still have a lot left and God has a purpose yet to be fulfilled in your life.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong   Life much, bent rather how I may be quit   Fairest and easiest of this combrous charge,   Which I must keep till my appointed day   Of rendring up. MICHAEL to him repli'd.     Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou livst   Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n:

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven.

For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend,   Meer Serpent in appearance, forth was come,   And on his Quest, where likeliest he might finde   The onely two of Mankinde, but in them   The whole included Race, his purposd prey.

And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,   Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?   Not of my self; by some great Maker then,   In goodness and in power praeeminent;   Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,   From whom I have that thus I move and live,   And feel that I am happier then I know.