Quotes About Purpose

Colossians 2:2-3 as my personal purpose statement, and I believe it is the purpose for women's ministry as well: "My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Henry Blackaby challenges us, "When God invites you to join Him in His work, He has assigned a God-sized assignment for you. You will realize that you cannot do it on your own. If God doesn't help you, you will fail. This is the crisis point where many decide not to follow what they sense God is leading them to do. Then they wonder why they do not experience God's presence and activity the way other Christians do."1

Like an artist who sees the finished work in his mind's eye, God saw your unformed substance and then began to fashion you from head to toe. He made no mistakes but planned each detail of your being. He is the masterful Potter who formed you and shaped your unique features. You are one of a kind.

ANN MCNEILL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERT "Your destiny is not a matter of luck, it is the result of the choices you make on a daily basis. These choices will either elevate you or cause your dreams to sink. Decide today to be everything you have been created to be and everything you deserve. Your success is in your hands.

You are exactly who you are because of the thoughts you allow to dominate and occupy your mind. Your thoughts determine your goals. Your faith, combined with those goals, determines your outcome. By taking control of your thoughts, applying faith to them, and then taking action, you become the master of your life. You begin to live your life deliberately. You fulfill your purpose.

Doing enough is never enough. Being enough is never enough. Success requires a higher level of action, drive, and commitment. Put your fears aside and dare to do what others believe cannot be done. If you believe what you're doing matters and surround yourself with the right people who buy into your purpose and goal, you too can rewrite your legacy.

Don't take life as a ADVANTAGE take it SERIOUSLY because it's not a game)

nothing is random. The Universe knows what's happening, and what's needed, even when we do not.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters.

To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from—what kind of family brought us into this world," Josie said softly. "We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.

It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

We don't need to have a birthmark prophetically positioned in a sign on our third rib to tell us what the Bible has already told us: We are intricately, beautifully, and wonderfully made.

The highest call for all who know the Lord is to deliver to Jesus everything that belongs to him. It is not limited to spending time in religious activities sponsored by ministries and organizations; although these are valuable, we need to have an equal value for callings in any arena.

necessary; it has served its purpose. Now, in Christ, and the creation of the "new man" (Eph 2:11–22), the law-covenant has been fulfilled and the God-given divisions tied to that law-covenant have been removed so much so that Paul can proclaim, "Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation" (Gal 6:15).

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

My salvation came with the realization that if you don't live for something, you don't live for much of anything. My something was Jesus, my Lord and Savior, and I no longer wanted to maintain a lifestyle that would disappoint the One who had given His life for me.

God does not give us gifts that He does not intend for us to use.

She walked as if she had nothing in mind but her destination—or something beyond it—staring ahead with Mama's elongated black eyes, glossy with a kind of circumspect longing.

What's the point?" I asked even though I didn't expect an answer. He shook his head. "I don't know. Power." He took a drag on the cigarette. "To what end?