Quotes About Purpose

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

So I would die in here. I'd leave my little life. I'd barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY

Dear friend, life passes with or without God.

Everyone gathered around this drink in order to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. This discussion had its own purpose: To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.

the gospel is never about seeking our own comfort

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It's a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn't radical. It's normal. It's time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It's time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

What mattered in combat, what really mattered, was not only understanding why you asked men to risk their lives, but making them understand. Men would willingly risk their lives, but they needed to know that it counted. And they needed to know they had a chance.

The more opposition you face, the bigger & better God's Plan is for you!

Books are curious things. When they want to live, the find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing...

Christians should desire to live their lives as good and godly stewards like Jesus, investing their time, talent, and treasure for God's purposes.

You were created by God, are on the earth to image and glorify God, and when you die, if you are in Christ, you will be with God forever, imaging and glorifying him perfectly in a sinless state.