Quotes About Purpose

Evaluate how well you are handling the adversity in your life. I don't waste anything, including your suffering.

You are increasingly released to become the one I created you to be.

But now that I'm not needed to take care of any of you, now that no one seems to notice if I do or I don't, I can't work out what to do with myself.

We would do well to remember that the success of any struggle depends on the determination of its leaders and the clarity of its purpose, not the doubts of naysayers.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.

Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the unknown.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

What the present generation wants is what all generations have always wanted—a meaning, a sense of what the world and life are—a chance to strive for some sort of order.

Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum. Process and purpose are so welded to each other that it is impossible to mark where one leaves off and the other begins, or which is which. The very process of democratic participation is for the purpose of organization rather than to rid the alleys of dirt. Process is really purpose.

in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve

One's purpose is Love.

Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.

We can begin to focus on the eternal if we live to love God and others (the Jesus Creed), if we pursue justice as the way we are called to love others as God's creations, if we live out a life that drives for peace as how loving people treat one another, and if we strive for wisdom instead of just knowledge or bounty.

kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.

In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

Let your life speak.

Am I absorbed with an Ethic from Beyond? Is my life too absorbed with the here and now?

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.