Quotes About Purpose

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

The so-called sovereign nations of the world are not truly sovereign. They are nothing more than instruments in the hand of God to accomplish His will:

It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

He did so because that particular infirmity uniquely fits you for the life He has planned for you.

Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current.

Data Dump: an excessive, meaningless, shapeless outpouring of data without purpose or plan. The inevitable reaction of audiences to a Data Dump is not persuasion, but rather the horrific effect known as MEGO: Mine Eyes Glaze Over. The inevitable reaction of audiences to a Data Dump is not persuasion, but rather the horrific effect known as MEGO: Mine Eyes Glaze Over. Why? Why would any presenter in his or her right mind do

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Being old is being useless, and having things be useless to you. Because: the world is what is still to come. It isn't what is or what was.

The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want?

A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping

Documentation is never an end in itself; it is only a means to an end. Creating documentation for its own sake is not merely a waste of time—it can be counterproductive and demoralizing.

Desire is the only justification for obedience.

But for them—as for anyone—survival isn't enough. So what began as a last-ditch effort has become a battle cry for something greater. Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

I'VE GROWN INTO MYSELF to understand where I'm going and what I want to do. I always knew who I was but I didn't know how to get to where I thought I needed to go in order to be "that person." I think a lot of us are intimidated by what we are called to be, but we already have everything we need in our hearts.