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.
—John Piper
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I once heard the suggestion that you develop your life purpose statement based on what you would like other people to say about you at your funeral. Imagine your perfect eulogy, then build your statement on that. Frankly, that’s a bad plan. At the end of your life it isn’t going to matter at all what other people say about you. The only thing that will matter is what God says about you.
—Rick Warren
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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. . . . Contrary to what many popular books, movies, and seminars tell you, you won’t discover your life’s meaning by looking within yourself. You probably tried that already. You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.
—Rick Warren
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Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
—Tim Kizziar
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Don’t prioritize your schedule; schedule your priorities.
—Stephen Covey
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Leadership capability relates as much to how we lead ourselves as to how we lead others.
—Scott Belsky
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Thinking of others is at the heart of Christlikeness and the best evidence of spiritual growth. This kind of thinking is unnatural, counter-cultural, rare, and difficult.
—Rick Warren
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A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.
—Rick Warren
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We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God’s favor—His blessings and answers to prayer—comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ.
—Jerry Bridges
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