Quotes About Purpose

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfill it.

But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.

I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless. She knew the one that God had intended her to be, the other that she had made herself.

To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live.

Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.

I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied. Where people have not yet found their work, they may be more pitied than those that beg their bread. When a man knows his work and will not do it, pity him more than one who is to be hanged tomorrow.

I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the sake of truth and men's hearts dying for the lack of it.

the road to the next duty is the only straight one

Thy will be done. I yield up everything. 'The life is more than meat' -- then more than health; 'The body more than raiment' -- then more than wealth; The hairs I made not, thou art numbering. Thou art my life--I the brook, thou the spring. Because thine eyes are open, I can see; Because thou art thyself, 'tis therefore I am me.

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

At length she gently pushed me away, and with the words, Go, my son, and do something worth doing, turned back, and, entering the cottage, closed the door behind her. I felt very desolate as I went. CHAPTER

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

A candle is not lighted for itself; neither is a man. The light that serves self only, is no true light; its one virtue is that it will soon go out.

Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to be done, and rendering it impossible for him who makes it wait, ever to know what to believe.

Nothing that could be got from the heart of the earth could have been put to better purposes than the silver the king's miners got for him. There were people in the country who, when it came into their hands, degraded it by locking it up in a chest, and then it grew diseased and was called mammon, and bred all sorts of quarrels; but when first it left the king's hands it never made any but friends, and the air of the world kept it clean.

It is always the way. Until a man knows God, he seeks to obey him by doing things he neither commands nor cares about;

if I am not unfrequently sad, I yet cast no more of a shade on the earth, than most men who have lived in it as long as I. I have a strange feeling sometimes, that I am a ghost, sent into the world to minister to my fellow men, or, rather, to repair the wrongs I have already done. May the world be brighter for me, at least in those portions of it, where my darkness falls not.

he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there it is of no use to tell you. But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there. Everybody who is not at home, has to go home. You thought you were at home where I found you: if that had been your home, you could not have left it. Nobody can leave home.