The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of dedicating one's life to a higher purpose, which ultimately glorifies God.
Kathryn Kuhlman's quote suggests that the pinnacle of human achievement lies not in personal success or accolades but in the complete surrender of one's life to God. When individuals allow their lives to reflect divine qualities and purposes, they contribute to the glorification of God Almighty. This perspective challenges the conventional views of success by prioritizing spiritual fulfillment over material gains.
In practice
In a church sermon about serving others, one could use this quote to illustrate the importance of living for a higher purpose.
...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
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