“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
Viktor Frankl
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
John F. Kennedy
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Psalm 32:8
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
Proverbs 16:9
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Psalm 86:12
Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Isaiah 43:7So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:13-14
“Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”
Westminster Catechism
Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4: 7-11
“God has designed our happiness in him to grow as we share it with others.”
John Piper
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
Ephesians 5:1-2