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Begin the Adventure: Discovering Purpose, Vision, and Passion
| Quote |
| It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. |
| Bilbo Bagignstest |
| All living things have this in common: They begin to live as an organism at a very definite moment, they develop according to a very definite plan, acting and reacting to their environment, and finally as an organism they vanish. The permanent factor in this process… is not the matter out of which the organism is made; for this changes constantly during life, as is well known. Far more characteristic of a particular organism and the constant factor in its life is the plan according to which it is formed and evolves - is its time-phase (zeitgestalt)…Each living being has its own time formation. |
| Theodor Bovettest |
| It's tough to make your mark on the world if you are an eraser head. |
| Winnie the Poohtest |
| We've got to make this stuff we're lost in look as much like home as possible. |
| test |
| You may now log in to life. Password: |
| test |
| Life is an empty canvas. Others may color or shade it, but your hand holds the brush that paints the picture of your life. |
| test |
| Unlike any other being, Man carries a deep yearning for something long lost. There is a passionate sense of adventure to discover what this is that was lost. |
| Carl Townsendtest |
| It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. |
| Eph1:11-12 The Message test |
| The absolute goal of ministry is to glorify God. |
| George Barnatest |
| God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. |
| test |
| We are in the happiness business-we make magic. |
| Walt Disneytest |
| A rhino can run thrity miles an hour. A rhino, however, can only see thirty feet ahead. What's at thirty-one feet, however, doesn't make any difference. |
| Erwin McManustest |
| I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. |
| Jimmy Cartertest |
| Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him. |
| Soren Kierkegaardtest |
| They say there are two important days in a your life: the day your were born, and the day you find out why you were born. |
| Carl Townsendtest |
| Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow |
| Theodore Epptest |
| With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. |
| Chestertontest |
| The world has lost its story. How that happened is quite a story as well. |
| John Eldridgetest |
| Man's chief end is to gloriy God and to enjoy Him forever. |
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| Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations. |
| Kenneth Hildebrandtest |
| "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust him and he will do this… |
| Psalm 37:4-5 test |
| Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!' |
| Thomas Kempistest |
| Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it. |
| Robert McCrackentest |
| When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. |
| Wayne Dyertest |
| I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. |
| George Carlintest |
| Our purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. |
| Dale Carnegietest |
| More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. |
| Billy Sundaytest |
| 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 Columbustest |
| But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. |
| Christopher Columbustest |
| I just saw a bumper sticker that said, "Wag more. Bark less." Love it! |
| (bumper sticker) test |
| Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running in a different race. |
| Blanchard & Peale test |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
| Albert Einsteintest |
| The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. |
| Albert Ellistest |
| No one is useless to God. No one. |
| Max Lucadotest |
| We are significant, not because of what we do, but because of whose we are. |
| Max Lucadotest |
| Life is not a do-it-yourself project. |
| Len Sweettest |
| If Hans Christian Anderson were writing today, not "The Emperor has No Clothes" but "The Clothes Have No Emperor! |
| Len Sweettest |
| The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| We were promised sufferings, they were part of the program. We were even told, "Blessed Are They That Mourn |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| God made a better story. But it's a long story with a complicated plot & we're not very attentive readers |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| If I have a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the explanation is-I was made for another world. |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen |
| Steven Coveytest |
| The question is not,"Can someone lead a good life without Christianity?" The question is, "Can I?" |
| C.S. Lewistest |
| Sometimes your passion finds you instead of the other way around. |
| Condoleeza Ricetest |
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