Quotes About Purpose

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

Destiny = our free will + God's free will

I learned so much from Steve. He helped me reevaluate my own purpose, my own life. What would happen if I didn't make it to forty? What legacy would I leave?

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans for good, not evil. To give you a future and a hope.

The truth is we all have an expiration date. Your time here on earth is limited. It's precious. It's valuable. God doesn't want you wasting another second with meaningless habits that are derailing your dreams. What if God placed a big stamp on our "passport to life" showing us how much time we have left? I mean, it's sorta creepy, but it would certainly motivate us to live each day with purpose.

quote from Dexter Yager: "You will never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.

If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I'm about to do?"[8]

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

What you write chooses you.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

In a sermon titled "The Use of Money," John Wesley preached a concept that can be summarized as, "Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can."1 That's prosperity with a purpose!

Life is sacred: Live on purpose

With God in charge we don't have to be anxious or fear. He'll bring about what He needs to in order to accomplish His purposes. I'm just glad we're on His side.

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

There is a now Word of God for you, a now revelation from the Holy Spirit, that has direct bearing on your circumstances. Praise prepares you to receive this Word, by which God will reveal "the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself" (Eph. 1:9).

Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?

A local advertising periodical offered the following disclaimer: Just in case you find mistakes in this paper, please remember they were put there for a purpose. Some folks are always looking for mistakes, and we try to please everyone!

Lord Jesus, do absolutely anything you need to do to me, so that you can do absolutely everything you want to do through me.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.