Quotes about Purpose

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

You're gifted to do something.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.

One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.