Quotes About Purpose

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

THE FOURTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS I have a decided heart.

If you do not choose, you'll end up like everyone else in the world who has never chosen. The people who do not actively choose a road to travel always default to the road everyone else is already on.

Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure...and they matter forever.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Everybody---every single body---makes a difference! But there is a choice that determines what kinda difference you will make. Most folks don't see how important they are...how much they matter to all of us. So they never choose to do somethin' special wif their lives. And not makin' a choice? That is a choice...a lost one.

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

To be Christian is to stake our lives on this belief: the only cultural goods that ultimately matter are the ones that love creates.

What is most needed in our time are Christians who are deeply serious about cultivating and creating but who wear that seriousness lightly—who are not desperately trying to change the world but who also wake up every morning eager to create.

The beginning of culture and the beginning of humanity are one and the same because culture is what we were made to do. There is no withdrawing from culture. Culture is inescapable. And that's a good thing.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

Direction—not intention—determines our destination.

Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?