Quotes About Purpose

Be sure that the means you employ are as pure as the end you seek.

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. And

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

The moment of victory is too short to live for that alone.

we are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel.

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Your womanhood is ultimately not about you. It's about displaying the glory of God and His powerful redemptive plan.

Woman helps man glorify God in a way he could not do if she did not exist.

Synchronicity. Life isn't a series of random events at all, but rather an expression of a deeper order.

What had Van Gogh said? I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order.

It was chilling to wake up at forty years of age to find she had no friends, no interests and no investments in anything unconnected to her work.

Grief can make you question your goals and purpose. How you want to spend your life.

People always seem to be in so much of a hurry," Lovie continued as she sat down breathlessly in the sand. "Rush, rush, rush. What are they rushing toward? Life isn't some kind of race. We all cross the same finish line, sooner or later. You'd hate to get the end in sight and suddenly wish you'd walked rather than run, wouldn't you?" "Maybe that's why they call it the human race.

People always seem to be in so much of a hurry. Rush, rush, rush. What are they rushing toward? Life isn't some kind of race. We all cross the same finish line, sooner or later. You'd hate to get the end in sight and suddenly wish you'd walked rather than run, wouldn't you? Maybe that's why they call it the human race. Well, we are all in it together. But the winner of this race gets no prize. so take your time.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

I am here to be used, Holmes.

vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.