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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He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”
—Deuteronomy 20:3-4 NIV
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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It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
—Deuteronomy 13:4 NIV
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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See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.
—Deuteronomy 12:32 NIV
Don’t prioritize your schedule; schedule your priorities.
—Stephen Covey
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Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
—Deuteronomy 11:18-21 NIV
Leadership capability relates as much to how we lead ourselves as to how we lead others.
—Scott Belsky
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Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.
—Deuteronomy 11:16 NIV
