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Quotes About Purpose

God's will for us is less about our comfort than it is about our contribution. God
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life—seize your divine moment. A
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
There is only a good fight and a good death for the one whose life is given to the noble.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
You were created to be free. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you're also called to be free.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
You were born to live a great adventure; You were created with a divine destiny; You are called to fulfill a great mission. You were designed for a unique purpose. Now you are called to live it out.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The most important things in life rarely come with urgency. It may seem counter intuitive, but the most important things in life are easily pushed to the back burner.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
for those of us who embrace the cause of Christ, the cost to participate in the mission of God is nothing less than everything we are and everything we have.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
When we sit under the pomegranate tree protecting the life we have, we risk relinquishing what God really wants for us—to seize our divine destiny.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live. You
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
I want to live the kind of life that cannot be lived without the fullness of Christ in my life.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
For our lives to be works of art, we need to allow a lifetime of work. We must give God the time to make us works of art. We must press close to God and allow both the tenderness of his touch and the pressure of his hands to shape us and mold us into someone we would not be without him.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Where there is no love, there is no value for life.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
To give up on love is to choose a life that is less than human.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
TO LIVE A PRAYERLESS LIFE IS TO MISS THE LIFE THAT GOD CREATED YOU TO EXPERIENCE. YET THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PRAYER CAN BECOME A RELIGIOUS VEIL FOR AN EMPTY LIFE.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Nietzsche's observation, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
category. A church doesn't need to pray about whether it should pray. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should serve. It doesn't need to pray about whether it should evangelize.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Cuando llegues al final de tu vida, ¿podrás decir: "Di todo lo que tenía", o tendrás un sentimiento hueco dentro de tu alma de que te rendiste demasiado pronto, esperaste demasiado poco, que no golpeaste la última flecha?
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The warrior lives to fulfill God's intention that the world would reflect all that is good and beautiful and true.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
When we offer ourselves as instruments for God's purpose, we create opportunities for others to experience God through us. We become living lightning rods of God's activity. Our lives become the X that marks the spot. Our obedience creates a spiritual epicenter through which God shakes up the world around us and others come to know Him. HIS
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Sometimes we pray; sometimes we are the answers to prayer. You become the answer to prayer when you act as though your life depends on it. Because it does. And so do the lives of everyone your life touches.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Imagine the power of our lives if we could know with confidence that when others see us, they would also see God; that God would reveal Himself through an ordinary human being; that those who today are blind to God would have their eyes opened by the life each of us lives.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus