Quotes about Purpose

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical.

God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -The Circle Maker-

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.

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.

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.

We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.

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.

The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?

You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.

Every once in a while, I need a no-agenda day with nothing to do, but those aren't the days we're going to celebrate at the end of our lives. We won't even remember those days. What we'll remember are the days when we had everything to do, and with God's help, we did it. We won't remember the things that came easy; we'll remember the things that came hard. We'll remember the miracles on the far side of "long and boring.

God wants to do so much more than simply forgive your sin. He wants to leverage your past regrets for His eternal purpose.