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Quotes About Purpose

God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost.25
~ Mark Batterson
If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.
~ Mark Batterson
No te sorprendas si Dios hace que reduzcas la velocidad. No te sorprendas si Dios se interpone. ¿Por qué? Porque te ama demasiado como para permitir que te hundas de cabeza en un problema. Hay algo que nos enseña la burra de Balán y es esto: Dios puede usar cualquier cosa para que se cumplan sus propósitos y puede hacerlo donde sea, en el momento que sea, de la manera que sea.
~ Mark Batterson
Dios no hace milagros para satisfacer nuestros caprichos egoístas. Dios hace milagros por una razón, y solo por esa razón: porque quiere dar a conocer su gloria. Nosotros solo tenemos la suerte de ser sus beneficiarios.
~ Mark Batterson
God is setting you up! He is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. And His angels are our advance team! Each trip around the sun has been carefully choreographed for us by the Creator of the universe. We just need to take His cues.
~ Mark Batterson
At the end of our lives, our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained opportunities we left on the table, the God-given passions we didn't pursue, and the God-sized dreams we didn't go after because we let fear dictate our decisions.
~ Mark Batterson
Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
~ Mark Batterson
cuando un sueño procede de Dios, tiene más de nueve vidas.
~ Mark Batterson
your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?
~ Mark Batterson
Here is the mistake so many of us make: we start out pursuing a passion and end up settling for a paycheck. So instead of making a life, all we do is make a living. And our deep-seated passions get buried beneath our day-to-day responsibilities.
~ Mark Batterson
we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric
~ Mark Batterson
You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
~ Mark Batterson
Yo no creo en las coincidencias; creo en la providencia.
~ Mark Batterson
If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.
~ Mark Batterson
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
~ Mark Batterson
Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.
~ Mark Batterson
Si el ayer es historia y el mañana es un misterio, ¡sácale jugo al día! Si aprovechas el día de hoy, el mañana se hace cargo de sí mismo.
~ Mark Batterson
El mundo no ha visto todavía lo que Dios es capaz de hacer por, a través de, dentro de y por medio del hombre que se consagre plena y totalmente a él». ¿Por qué ese hombre no puedes ser tú? Todos
~ Mark Batterson
God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.
~ Mark Batterson
I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.
~ Mark Batterson
Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3
~ Mark Batterson
la voluntad de Dios nunca hace sus sumas a base de los cálculos humanos.
~ Mark Batterson
Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.
~ Mark Batterson
Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.
~ Mark Batterson