Quotes about Purpose

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God.