“You also asked me what is the purpose of life. This is revealed in the Gospel and only in the Gospel. Hence, only Christians can know what the meaning of life is. Period. And the purpose is – the kingdom of heaven. The first words of Christ or the proclamation of this purpose, ‘Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ His last words were, ‘Go into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.’ Are His stories not all about the Kingdom of Heaven? Is His ascension into the world and his revelation from it not only a testimony of the kingdom of heaven? One could freely say that the entire gospel of Christ from the beginning to the end speaks and testifies of the kingdom of heaven as the purpose of human life.”
St. Nikolai Velimirovich
~Missionary Letters #3