| Term | Definition |
| Proverbs 11:28 (MSG) | A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. |
| Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT) | Blessed are those who trust in the Lord... They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit. |
| Colossians 1:16 (Msg) | For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. |
| Betrand Russell, atheist | Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. |
| Isaiah 44:2a (CEV) | I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. |
| Albert Einstein | God doesn't play dice |
| Ecclesiastes 4:4 (LB) | I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy! |
| Thomas Carlyle | The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder- a waif, a nothing, a no man. |
| Isaiah 26:3 (TEV) | You, Lord, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT) | God has...planted eternity in the human heart. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. |
| James 4:14b (NIV) | What is your life? |
| Anais Nin | We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. |
| 1 John 2:17 (NLT) | This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever." |
| Luke 16:10a (NLT) | Unless you are faithful in small matters, you won't be faithful in large ones. |