Quotes About Purpose

This is your life, your one and only life, so take excellence very personally.

Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?

A book without spine or covers is like an unquiet spirit without mortal form. Whatever's left of it holds itself together out of sheer resentment, roaming without purpose, lashing out at whatever crosses its path.

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself.

I suppose we are all lumps of coal destined for one furnace or another.

The important part is to set an intention for your day and for your life. A daily mantra is one way to do that; another is creating a Leadership Constitution.

challenging me to identify who I wanted to become and why.

But that was Tom Mix. He was not made by the West; Tom Mix knew he was made for the West.

Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal.

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything

Every NPC needs a role. A job. A reason for living.

I was created to be destroyed.

If you're not careful, you can reach a point where you've made choices without thinking. Without planning. You can end up not living the life you'd meant to. Maybe one you deserve, but not one you intended." Here he wagged his finger again. "Make sure you think," he said. "Make sure you plan.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!" Make us the kind of people, like Paul, who are so taken and captured with the gospel that all of life is measured in terms of the gospel—who you are and what you're up to, Jesus.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. (Col. 3:23–24)

the gospel is not just good news for people getting ready to die—it's good news for people who are now ready to live.

Father, there's no safer place to be—in life or in death—than in Christ. Because you've hidden our lives in Jesus, not a hair can fall from our heads, not a breath can be taken from our lungs, and not a beat can be missed by our hearts apart from your sovereign purposes and pleasure. And should I die in the next hour, my heart will forever proclaim, "My God has done all things well." I pray with great gratitude, in Jesus' most worthy name. Amen.

We don't claim your promises—they claim us! If we're going to "name and claim" anything, may it be to have greater passion for your glory.

He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. (Eph. 1:9–10 NIV)

For the gospel is not just good news for people getting ready to die—it's good news for people who are now ready to live.

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. (Prov. 16:9 NIV)