Quotes About Purposes

Jesus, as Israel's Messiah, is the place where and the means by which God's covenant purposes and Israel's covenant faithfulness meet, merge, and achieve their original object.

heaven is the place where God's purposes for the future are stored up. It isn't where they are meant to stay so that one would need to go to heaven to enjoy them; it is where they are kept safe against the day when they will become a reality on earth.

we can understand only too well how it was that the Israelite people of old, and the Jewish people of Jesus's day, could very easily forget that their national dream and God's purposes for them might actually be two quite different things. The prophets existed to remind them of the fact; but prophets were easy to ignore or forget. Or kill.

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Although there are many commonalities among wargames, there are also enormous variations in their purposes and designs. The goals of the hobby game player and the goals of the security professional are not the same, although both might be employing very similar game systems. Contrariwise, even games that ostensibly cover the same subject matter can do so in widely divergent ways.

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

Destiny obscures human purposes like everything else human, just as if it were a muddy river-bottom swallowing pebbles.