Quotes About Purpose

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable.

In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself

God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

People who fit don't seek. The seekers are those that don't fit.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

here I'm finally doing this thing that I've known I should be doing since I was in eleventh grade. I was certain, like all of us were, that we were doing the right thing.

Why are we in a band again?' We just were driven to do it for some reason, I don't know why. Just because we had nothing better to do.

Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

All will be as it should; that is how the world is made.

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary.

I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.

The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?

What is the meaning of it, Watson?" said Holmes, solemnly, as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

I charge you as I was charged. Don't waste your life. Don't allow your body's weakness to be a weakness of your spirit. Repay your debt of freedom. You have the key.

Never worry about what you're escaping from, he said. Worry about what you're escaping to.

From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He thought that if he took on the job of loving this broken woman, some measure of sense or purpose might be returned to his life. He thought that in mending her, he might also be mended.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.