Rick Warren - Purpose Quotes

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You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.

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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

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It's not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

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We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

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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.

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Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

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You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

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There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

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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, then do it." Fortunately, the Bible gives us a clear example of a life that gives pleasure to God. The man's name was Noah.

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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

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Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

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Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.

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We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

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The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...

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God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

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God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.

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He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

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The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

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If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

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If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

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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.

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