Quotes About Purpose

From eternity past God purposed to visit judgment on Jesus so that he could show mercy to the elect.

Who I am, what I do, and how I do it make a difference." And

Unless people can find meaning and purpose in their work, they are not likely to stick around very long or put in the effort required to make a difference. These feelings are particularly important for leaders to tap into during times of high uncertainty.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification

Wake up, dude! It's not about who you are. It's all about who God is.

We must not think that action alone is successful Christ-following. In God's eyes, the motives behind our actions are of paramount importance. You can want a godly family or a successful career or a low handicap or a beautiful lawn, but if you want them for yourself and not the glory of God, it's a fail.

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He—God—is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."3

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

We don't worship so that preaching will be more impactful for us; we preach so that worship will be more impactful for God.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

God desires for us to be the persons we were created to be: to be simply and purely ourselves, and in this state to love God and to let ourselves be loved by God. It is a double journey, really: finding God means allowing ourselves to be found by God. And finding our true selves means allowing God to find and reveal our true selves to us.

Everyone's true self is a unique creation of God's, and the way to sanctity is to become the unique self that God wishes us to be.

The problem was that whenever I considered "earning a living," I thought mostly about the "earning" and nothing about the "living.

Don't let anyone take from you the freedom to become who God wants you to be.

But this is about more than just work, a job, or even a career. Vocation may have little to do with one's actual work. For the deepest vocation is to become who you are, to become your "true self," the person whom God created and calls you to be.