Quotes About Purpose

We are too busy fixing the train to realize that we are on the wrong track. We are too busy staying alive to figure out how to live.

Behind every purpose, there's a reason, behind every reason, there's a story, behind every story, there's a dance... ready to set in motion

Lost every purpose to visit the land of dreams, since the colors of dance filled the canvas of my reality

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish

to be, or not to be?

We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.

Remember your grandfather's last words, Jonah would tell his children: Life is nothing more than a little why.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

Lord, you have appointed some to be prophets; give us ears to hear and mouths to speak. You have appointed some to sing of your goodness in the streets; make us bold to celebrate you. You have called some to be still, listen, and act; give us steadiness of mind and singularity of purpose. Amen.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

That's the beautiful mystery: we have a God who chooses to need us. We have a God who doesn't want to change the world without us. We have a God who longs to cooperate with us, to allow us to fail and flounder and who promises to make up for our shortcomings, but nonetheless wants us.

An older charismatic woman told me, "If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work." There

this: for some strange reason, God doesn't want to change the world without us. There are times when we throw our hands up at God and say, "Do something!" and if we listen closely, we can hear God respond, "I did do something. I made you." Sometimes we are waiting on God, and God is waiting on us. When

between God's permissive will and God's perfect will. This

Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.

Lord, give us the imagination to dream and catch glimpses of the life you intend for us to live. Show us how our individual lives are entwined with those around us, and help us to live so truly together that we embody your good news in this world. Amen.

strength and purpose come from you. Direct our steps today, and turn us from the perishable things at which we grasp. Cast your light upon us so that our lives may bear witness to the light of Christ. Amen.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what God wants us to do and to become who God wants us to become.

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, "Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived. Ironically