Quotes About Purpose

I'm convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can't do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.

Young people sometimes say to me, I'll just die if the Lord calls me to be a missionary, or words to that effect. Wonderful! I say. That's the best possible way to start. You won't be of much use on the mission field unless you 'die' first. The conditions for discipleship begin with 'dying', and if you take the first step, very likely you will find that you have indeed been 'called'.

It was typical of Jim that, once sure of God's leading, he did not turn aside easily. The "leading" was to Ecuador, so every thought and action was bent in that direction. Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

May God give us a new vision of His will concerning the lost and our responsibility.

Deus nunca nos decepcionará. Ele nos ama e tem apenas um propósito para nós: a santidade, que no reino dele equivale à alegria.

And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.

But when the answer is no, then we know that God has something better at stake. Far greater things are at stake. There is another level, another kingdom, an invisible kingdom which you and I cannot see now but toward which we move and to which we belong.

But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.

If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.

God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.

It is natural indeed. However it's not the only thing God has in mind for us. We are not meant to live merely by what is natural. We need to learn to live by the supernatural. Ordinary fare will not fill the emptiness in our hearts...

When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.

God calls me. In a deeper sense than any other species of earthbound creature, I am called. And in a deeper sense I am free, for I can ignore the call.

Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.

We do things hopefully because they add life to our living, but not with the illusion they will help us escape death when our time comes.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Vive de tal forma que al mirar hacia atrás no lamentes haber desperdiciado la existencia. Vive de tal forma que no lamentes las cosas que has hecho ni desees haber actuado de otra manera. Vive con sinceridad y plenamente. Vive.

Life feels pointless.

La vida acaba cuando hemos aprendido todo lo que tenemos que aprender.

El conocimiento va muy bien -le dije- pero el conocimiento solo no va a sanar a nadie. Si no se usa.

para llevar una buena vida y así tener una buena muerte, hemos de tomar nuestras decisiones teniendo por objetivo el amor incondicional y preguntándonos: «¿ Qué servicio voy a prestar con esto?»

Se crece si no se esconde la cabeza en la arena sino que se acepta el sufrimiento intentando comprenderlo, no como una maldición o un castigo sino como un regalo hecho con un fin determinado.

Ser infeliz y sufrir es como forjar el hierro candente, es la ocasión que nos es dada para crecer y la única razón de nuestra existencia.