It All Starts with God

Chapter 1 - The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

"For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible.... everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him." (Colossians 1:16 - Msg)

"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaingless." (Berrand Russell, atheist)


"It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power"

"Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose."

"You cannot arrive at your life's purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist."

"You were made by God and for God - and until you understand that, life will never make sense."

"You were made for God, not vice versa, and life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not your using Him for your own purpose"

"Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life"

"Self-help is no help at all. Self sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self."

"God's wisdom...goes deep into the interior of his purposes...It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest - what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us."

"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."

"Without God, life makes no sense."

"EVERYTHING GOT STARTED I HIM AND FINDS ITS PURPOSE IN HIM." (Colossians 1:16b - Msg)


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