What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Quotes

“Imagine being able to live with a sense of purpose so compelling that even your darkest days of struggle brim with that hope, confident that the day will come when you look back over every difficult circumstance, every dark chapter, and say worth it.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“It's not fair for those of us who have heard so much to do so little to get the message about a God who has done everything to those who have heard nothing at all.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“The more we stand assured of this heavenly promise, the less terrified we are of earthly loss. Losses in life, though painful, are light and momentary.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“The great irony of life without God is that you usually don't end up enjoying the things you pursued in his place. It's only by having him in the right place that you develop the right relationship with all the second-place things.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“Most of us tend to think about wickedness only in terms of egregious sins. And we can certainly be wicked that way. But, according to Jesus, failing to risk our lives to their fullest potential for his kingdom is just as wicked in God's eyes as the most egregious violations of his laws.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“The first and best of what you are has to be laid in surrender at Jesus' feet. Only then will it bring life to the world.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“The law of the harvest states that you can only reap what first you sow. Planting involves risk. If the rains don't come, you are left with nothing. But if you never take the risk, you will never see the harvest.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“Because of the gift of the Holy Spirit, it's not about the abilities you bring to the table, but the willingness you lay on the table. God doesn't call the equipped; he equips the called. What makes you capable of extraordinary things is not extraordinary gifts, but an extraordinary willingness to be used by God.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“Be the best you can possibly be at your career. Get good at it. Your skills might very well be the thing God uses to place you before kings. And when you are there, tell them about Jesus. Slogging your way through law school or grinding through a grueling internship might not feel godly, but it might be the very thing God uses to put you in a place where people have no choice but to listen to you. Few things adorn the gospel as much as a fervent work ethic.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“Not all Christians go overseas, but all live sent.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

“Here's how I'd summarize pursuing the will of God in your career: whatever you're good at, do it well to the glory of God, and do it somewhere strategic for the mission of God.”
― J.D. Greear, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?