Purpose
THE SMILE OF GOD IS THE GOAL OF YOUR LIFE. Since pleasing God is the first purpose of your life, your most important task is to discover how to do that. The Bible says, “Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.”
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
He created you in His image for one reason: to have a deep, intimate relationship with you. God created the world with everything that you would ever need so that you could know and love Him. That means that neither ability, beauty, intelligence, money, or anything else will ever define your life as successful in God’s eyes.
Charles F. Stanley • 30 Life Principles (Life Principles Study)
In this book you have learned God’s five purposes for your life on earth: He made you to be a member of his family, a model of his character, a magnifier of his glory, a minister of his grace, and a messenger of his Good News to others. Of these five purposes, the fifth can only be done on earth. The other four you will keep doing in eternity in
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Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don’t do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren’t. You simply ask, “Does this activity help me fulfill one of God’s purposes for my life?”
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
You were made for God, not vice versa, and life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not your using him for your own purpose. The Bible says, “Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.”2
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
The reason we do anything, Peter said, is “so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 4:11)—because Jesus is “the radiance of [the Father’s] glory and the exact representation of His nature” (Heb. 1:3).
Stephen Kendrick • The Battle Plan for Prayer: From Basic Training to Targeted Strategies
The Christian worldview teaches that the real purpose for our existence is to know God. Why were we created? Think back to Adam working in the Garden of Eden. Did the God who created the whole universe with the breath of His mouth really need an employee to tend the vegetables and fruit trees? Of course not! He created us to have fellowship with
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