Quotes About Purpose

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.

Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.

You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice!

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

Only in God can you find true fulfillment.

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Toward a Life of Prayer

I seek the substantial in life.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what: not the usual undiscovered bird in the cold snowy willows, garishly green and yellow What could it be, this astonishment, but falling into a liquid mirror to finally understand that the purpose of earth is earth? It's plain as night. She's willing to sleep with us a little while.

How can I be lost when I've never been found?

Why shouldn't this happen? I have to rid myself of this last land mine, the unlived life.

Maybe a single life doesn't amount to much but perhaps it should at least drift toward the common good.

Our hearts, like sails on a ship, are not designed to grasp the why and the where. Our hearts are designed to do one thing—respond.

You are where you are because that's where you need to be... and if you need to move on, you will move on.

You, Dog. Youah all dog. Seems mighty funny to keep you in a piddlin' little cage, and just use you fo' getting' blue ribbons and little cups when you could be a huntin' dog. Seems might funny. Still, I s'pose it's impo'tant, else, Danny and Mistah Haggin wouldn't do it. But fo' the life of me I can't figgah it.

All our lives we sweat and save Building for a shallow grave Must be something else we say Somehow to defend this place Everything must be this way.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Living in faith is knowing that even though our little work, our little seed, our little brick, our little block may not make the whole thing, the whole thing exists in the mind of God, and that whether or not we are there to see the whole thing is not the most important matter. The most important thing is whether we have entered into the process.