Quotes About Purpose

The less you believe you have to do, the more you achieve what you need to do.

Soul reward is the key element of a Tao-based job.

To be all that we were meant to be and to do all that we were meant to do, is the only end in life. — Spinoza

If you know you live in an abundant universe, you trust that you have enough time to do what you need to do. When we are in the consciousness of peace, time becomes elastic; it will expand or contract to accommodate our purpose.

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today Have but one purpose; to be given Christ To use to bless the world with miracles. — W, LESSON 353

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.

Do it because you would, not because you should.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

In discovering that half of his biological heritage consisted of nothing more than an impersonal concoction of designer proteins, artificially leveraged by indifferent scientists to produce a zygote that when matured would, they hoped, display certain interesting mental abilities, he had felt something fundamental drain out of him. He had been nothing more than a test, an experiment, one among many.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

There's a French saying, 'Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.' Let's see, 'Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower'...

Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went.

If we look at the Bible as a memory aid meant to reorient us to where we came from and get us back home, it might mean we live a life filled with the kind of adventure it was always intended to hold. At least that's what happened to me.

You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.

We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world. In

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God's eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.11

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

For me the big questions about life are: 1. How should I live in the world? 2. Why should I live this way?

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.