Quotes About Purpose

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God's sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith.

I thought that being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was, in other words, and it was not until this project failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.1 —Gautama Buddha

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God.

When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?

I spent a great deal of time trying to be good, but was good the same as whole?

People know when their gifts are being wasted, and this knowledge can eat away at the soul like a cancer. Call me a romantic, but I think most people want to be good for something.

Then one night when my whole heart was open to hearing from God what I was supposed to do with my life, God said, "Anything that pleases you." "What?" I said, resorting to words again. "What kind of an answer is that?" "Do anything that pleases you," the voice in my head said again, "and belong to me.

The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.

We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?

I know that when religious people are feeling overwhelmed by a world with little use for their ancient truths, they can find new meaning by identifying a great evil to oppose.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

It´s like you get started in one direction and pick up speed, and you may forget where you´re going and why,but the momentum takes you there anyway. Only, you find out when you arrive that it isn´t where you wanted to be.

IDENTIFY THOSE THINGS THAT DEEPLY ENGROSS YOU, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL COMPLETE, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL AS THOUGH NOTHING IS MISSING

we defined for ourselves the meaning of life (to live intensely);

Why be saddled with artifacts that no longer inspired me?

meant to be." Nancy took one

The life we plan isn't always the life we get, but it's usually the life we were meant to lead.

life is not always about work and career, about testing your mettle or living up to a family name. Sometimes we need quiet and we need play to realize our true selves, to see where we fit in the world.