Quotes About Purpose

That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the center of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.

Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving GoD." -BROTHER LAWRENCE.

The spiritual life is neither an art nor a science. To arrive at union with God all one needs is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, do nothing but for His sake, and to love Him only.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own.

The most excellent method he had found of going to God was to do our normal activities without any view of pleasing men, and (as far as we are able) purely for the love of God.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

All service ranks the same with God,-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.

James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.

What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia

there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?

an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, what is my intention in doing this?

The spiritual teacher Gary Zukav has said, "When you find an addiction, do not be ashamed. Be joyful. You have found something that you have come to this Earth to heal. When you confront and heal an addiction, you are doing the deepest spiritual work that you can do on this Earth.

How much do you think about your heart? Since before you were even born, that miraculous machine has been steadily pumping the energy of life throughout your body. Day in, day out, at least 115,000 beats each day, with the sole purpose of keeping you alive.

Gary taught me that an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?

All of us want to know that what we do, what we say, and who we are matters.

pathological need to be needed and their identities revolve around being seen as nurturers and helpers.

So each day we are pulled to refill our reward bucket.