“The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective," Munroe said.
"The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King.
John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people,
but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history,”
he said.
Munroe frequently exhorted his congregation to live a life of purpose.
“You weren't born just to live a life and to die, you were born to
accomplish something specifically,” he said in that 2003 sermon. “Matter
of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose, that is
success. ... Success is not just existing, success is making it to the
end of why you were born.”
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