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Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
- Rick Warren (PhD)
Pro: Purpose & Meaning
Brief Overview: Throughout history, philosophers have inquired into the purpose and meaning of life. Do you ever wonder if life offers more than the fleeting happiness found in career, family, hobbies, and sensory pleasure? Christians respond with a resounding YES. To discover more about life’s purpose and meaning, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God’s purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola -
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Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.
- Tony Evans (PhD) -
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I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.
- Al Gore (Nobel) -
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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
- Nick Vujicic -
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God is the very first piece of the Christian Story because the Story is all about Him. He is the central character, not us. The Story is not so much about God's plan for our lives as it is about our lives for God's plan.
- Greg Koukl -
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The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it.
- E. Stanley Jones -
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It is finished" means that Jesus had accomplished all that God's mission had sent him to do. It did not merely mean that his life was over like, "I'm finished". It was a statement of achievement of purpose - God's purpose to deal with sin and guilt, to defeat all the powers of evil, to bring about the reconciliation of enemies, to defeat death itself, and to accomplish the reconciliation and liberation of the whole creation.
- Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD) -
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Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.
- Charles Colson (JD) -
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The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.
- A. W. Tozer -
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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD) -
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Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands.
- Oswald Chambers -
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
- Myles Munroe (PhD) -
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller -
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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
- C. S. Lewis -
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I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast! And when I run I feel his pleasure.
- Eric Liddell -
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
- T. D. Jakes -
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Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose
- Charles Spurgeon -
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God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.
- Greg Laurie -
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God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.
- Rod Parsley -
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God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.
- Zig Ziglar -
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I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.
- Reggie Bush -
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Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.
- George W. Bush -
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
- Thomas Merton -
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We can trust God to take care of the master plan when we take care of the details.
- St. Katharine Drexel -
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If God sends you many sufferings it is a sign that He has great plans for you, and certainly wants to make you a saint.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola -
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I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous Presence.
- Christopher Columbus -
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I firmly believe that the purpose of life is not this life. It is to equip us, whatever our role is going to be in the next life. And understanding God's story is really where I find the significance and purpose in my own story.
- Max Lucado -
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My purpose alone must be God's purpose.
- George Washington Carver -
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
- C. S. Lewis -
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My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.
- Joyce Meyer -
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I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
- Steve Maraboli -
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God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.
- Joel Osteen -
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.
- T. D. Jakes -
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Being successful and fulfilling your life's purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
- Oswald Chambers -
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The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.
- A. W. Tozer -
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The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the world.
- St. John Paul II (Pope) -
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
- Francis Chan -
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The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth.
- Myles Munroe (PhD) -
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If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.
- Max Lucado -
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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
- Bono -
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Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
- Joyce Meyer -
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In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
- Dorothy L. Sayers -
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You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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Gods purpose for my life was that I have a passion for Gods glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
- Jonathan Edwards -
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
- Mary Kay Ash -
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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
- David F. Wells (PhD) -
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I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
- Joel Osteen
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