Quotes About Purpose

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

We should be better craftsmen of our own lives.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken her last creative word; She lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

We should not exit from this world without finding out who we are and where we have come from. This is very important.

We all cried when we came into this planet, but it is important, that at least when we go, we are happy and smiling. Do not have regrets in life. You should feel that, 'I have done what I had to do, and whenever the time to leave this body comes, I will die happily'.

I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.

There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing you have received, but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

Trust God that you are where you are meant to be.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

I have at last found my vocation; it is love!

I shall be love, thus I shall be everything, and thus my dream will be realized.

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.