Quotes About Purpose

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

God cannot always give us a satisfactory answer, because our finite minds cannot grasp the thoughts of the infinite. His thoughts are high above our thoughts, and His ways above our ways (see Isaiah 55:9), but we can trust God, always! "In all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28).

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Piensa como un hombre de acción, actúa como un hombre de pensamiento" (Henri-Louis Berson)

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

On many days, doing what matters most will not be easy. It is not supposed to be. God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. We rejoiced to know the test would be one of faithful obedience even when it would not be easy.

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.