If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.