Quotes About Purpose

Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.

We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

Suppose you answer, "I want to be free from self and full of joy in God; I want to enjoy making much of God, not me. And I want the fullness of my joy to last forever." If you respond this way, then you will also have an answer to the fear I mentioned earlier, that you are just being used by God when he creates you for his glory. Now we see that in creating us for his glory, he is creating us for our highest joy. He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.

Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And

Living to magnify Christ is costly.

the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

God uses means to awaken joy in himself

The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's sake and count it gain.

Prayer is not for the enhancement of our comforts but for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

Labor to love people and honor God. Think of new ways that your work can bless people. Stop thinking mainly of profitability, and think mainly of how helpful your product or service can become.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Don't waste another day of your life.

Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.

himself. This is the meaning of his coming. This

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."2 Fleeing from death is the shortest path to a wasted life.

God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.

When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This

You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.

Glorifying God and enjoying Him were one end in their minds, not two.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for his ends