Quotes About Purpose

To live is Christ, and to die is gain."[213]

Corporate worship is to be missional.

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. —Gordon Allport

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.

They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul.

You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.

Loyalty is the elixir that makes death easy, but it's also the quality that gives life purpose.

Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.

They will know failure and triumph intertwining, locked in a braid of life and death. But eventually they will sit in a quiet room and understand that the bright days and fiercely contested struggles have been solely for the purpose of bringing them to this poignant and tender silence.

And there are just a few "ingredients" needed to make a healthy human—real, whole, fresh food, nutrients (vitamins and minerals), light, water, air, sleep, movement, rhythm, love, connection, meaning, and purpose.

Philosophie du progrès, "We are

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —HOWARD THURMAN

there are countless stories of people whose lives truly find their meaning after events force them to give up careers that they have been devoted to.

The wildflower's reward for trusting what it senses but doesn't yet know is to become what is was born to be—a flower whose inevitable place is realized in a small moment of Oneness, as it joins with elements that were here before it came alive and which will live on once it dies.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot what it could do. —NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I was recently in San Francisco

This is why finding what we love, though it may take years, is building a life of passion. For what makes you come alive can keep you alive, whether you are paid well for it or not. And beyond the fashion of the job market, a life of passion makes us a healthy cell in the body of the world.

the humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, "Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.

Too many Western believers still unconsciously view the church like a cruise ship, with a large, well-trained staff looking after every need. The church was never intended to be a cruise ship! It was always meant to be more like a fishing boat, with everyone working, everyone helping to catch and clean fish, and everyone enjoying the satisfaction of knowing that they gave their all. In such a crew, there is loyalty and friendship centered around a common mission.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place.

Don't confuse activity with action.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW