Quotes About Purpose

But of course you can only do what you're meant to do with a baseball bat when you're playing with other people. And salvation only does what it's meant to do when those who have been saved, are being saved, and will one day fully be saved realize that they are saved not as souls but as wholes and not for themselves alone but for what God now longs to do through them.

will be painful. That is part of the point, not that we seek the pain, but that we seek to follow Jesus.

the human calling to worship God and reflect him into his world.

Christians have assumed that virtually the only point in Jesus's death was "to save us from our sins," understood in a variety of more or less helpful ways. But for the gospels themselves, that rescue of individuals (which of course remains a central element) is designed to serve a larger purpose: God's purpose, the purpose of God's kingdom.

When God goes to work-- when Jesus becomes king-- human beings are not downgraded, reduced to being pawns or ciphers. In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.

resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world. Already

Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.

ANJAME MA , SARANJAME MA NIST

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Minimize your needs and Maximize your deeds.

I've never heard a man's cock described as a fang before...." "Fang, cock.... It's all sexual to a vampire." "But not to an angel. My cock serves a highly specific purpose.

A life is not a waste of time

Things we build ourselves, they matter.

He's built to protect, to shield, and they made him a killer.

The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506)

Are you going to break my trust again, Riley?" There could be no mistakes, no blurred lines here. He met her eyes full on. "Not on purpose. Never on purpose." He took a deep breath. "But I'm likely to fuckup when the wolf's riding me.

What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?

And what, exactly, am I giving as I'm learning to do this giving thing?

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. —Psalm 90:12

My mom used to say everything happens for a reason and there's no such thing as coincidences. Serendipity, yes; coincidence, no. She always said every event was part of God's tapestry. One side—the side we see as we stumble through life—looks like a confusing mass of interwoven thread, but on the other side—the side God sees— is a radiant, gorgeous work of art. And now, I can't help but wonder if there's a reason this happened.

Never forget, either of you, that there is always something greater than yourselves at work in the world. Look for it. Seek the whole truth, rather than letting the wind blow you as it will.

Life is short and must be lived.