Quotes About Purpose

Don't trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The 'why' of a thing—that's the foundation.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to

Still, in the larger sense, in a broader sense, it's better to have lived than left, right?

Jesus chose the disciples for what they would become, not for what they were at the time of their call.

Jim Elliot summarized it well: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jesus went about his ministry with a relaxed urgency.

Leadership is about instilling urgency.

It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. — Rumi (C. 1207 C.E.-1273 C.E.), Sufi poet

LIVING FROM THE ANSWER

Through the Divine Matrix, we participate in the constant change that gives meaning to life. The question now is less about whether or not we're passive observers and more about how we can intentionally create.

We need to be shaping our kids into arrows that will fly straight to the target God has set for them. If we're not carefully shaping and aiming our arrows, others will try to steal them and shape them for their use. What's worse, they will aim our children at targets of their own choosing. We should never be surprised if we are wounded by the members of our own family, if we have allowed sworn enemies of Christ to aim them.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.

Your Heavenly Father's love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives.

And to live only once– What if that's not enough?