Quotes About Purpose

William Temple, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the difficult days of World War II. He wrote, "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God."3

He desires for us to understand His plans.

That's why God is the answer to all our fears. If God is good and loving (and He is), and if God is all-powerful (and He is), and if God has a purpose and a plan that include His children (and He does), and if we are His children (as I hope you are), then there is no reason to fear anything, for God is in control of everything.

As members of God's kingdom, we're called to conquer the barriers between who we are and who God wants us to be. Our goal is to "come over" from where we are today, and to flourish as the person God made us to be.

God does not give us desires that cannot be realized.

Sometimes it is only through pain that we become who God wants us to be.

Set a clear focus in your life , and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God's purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.

James teaches us that we can be victors instead of victims, if we will mentally prepare ourselves by: 1. celebrating the reason behind our trials; 2. calculating the results of our trials; 3. calling on God's resources in our trials; 4. considering our reactions to our trials; 5. contemplating the reward of our trials.

Some churches grow vast congregations, increase the variety and number of their programs, and build larger and larger buildings to accomplish their purposes—which they mistake for those of Christ. In reality, He may be pushed outside and left knocking at the door. How sad to think of Him returning to His Church at the end of the age and finding Himself persona non grata!

REFLECTING ON THE MEANING

Mother Teresa, and she once told me that "death is part of the achievement of life.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.

Make more than dust.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [...] Your life is not disposable.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.