Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

necesitamos entender que la teología nunca es un fin en sí misma, sino que es un medio para alcanzar un fin: ser cada vez más como Aquel que es la definición por excelencia del amor.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

la gracia del evangelio no busca cambiar los aspectos religiosos de nuestras vidas; más bien busca cambiar todas las cosas que nos definen y nos motivan

What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

Todo deseo humano debe sostenerse en sumisión a un propósito mayor, los deseos de Dios para Su reino.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

So in grace, God has designed us to regularly gather together and remember the things that are worth living for.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

God didn't give us his grace in order to make our little claustrophobic kingdoms of one work, but to invite us to a much, much better kingdom.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.

the theology of the Word of God was never intended to be an end in itself, but a means to an end, and that end is a radically transformed life. The purpose of theology is not knowledge but holiness.

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?