Ephesians 2:1-10
New International Version
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Nikos Mourkogiannis
Purpose - The Starting Point of Great Companies (pp8-9), Palgrave Macmillan 2006
I believe that Purpose - not money, not status - is what people most want from work. Make no mistake: They want compensation; some want an ego-affirming title. Even more, though, they want their lives to mean something, they want their lives to have a reason. In the Middle Ages, craftsmen worked - with no thought of personal recognition - on cathedrals that even their grandchildren would not live to see completed. That didn’t bother them; in fact, it kept the going. For what is more important than doing God’s work? Bach, at the bottom of his compositions, wrote SDG - Soli deo Gloria, “to God alone the glory.” In the composer’s view, he as simply the messenger. You don’t have to be religious, or an artist, to want a Purpose in your life. It’s simply a matter of seeing the meaninglessness of modern material culture. Once you’ve received that message, Purpose may matter a great deal to you.