Quotes About Purpose

Lacey, you don't understand." He felt weightless, benumbed. He had nothing to fight with, not even a blade. "We're totally unarmed. I've seen what he can do." "There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives," the woman replied. Her face held no fear, only a sense of purpose. "It is time for you to see it." "See what?" "What you came to find," said Lacey. "The Passage.

There was, Alicia realized, a single hour that all the days since your birth pointed you toward. What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path—the one chosen for you—was visible. She

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? I'll tell you what I see, Peter. A clear path. More than that. A true path.

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

Life is too short to waste time on negativity. Let's surround ourselves with positivity and motivation, and chase our dreams with passion and purpose.

Life's very precious. You've got to give it 120 per cent. Just celebrate the fact that we're alive and enjoy it.

That was my focal point? My North Star that I had been following so futilely? If I tried to strip her off of the board, it would ruin the collage. Ruin . . . or make real?

God, had I been following the wrong set of coordinates my entire life, my eyes set on Beauty instead of True Beauty

she appears to be wearing her clothes simply to get on with life, rather than as a means to display her brother's consummate artistry.

Luke had a theological reason for this, for in his view the story he was telling shall not come to an end before the end of all history.

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

When our flesh stops trying, when it is thoroughly crushed and broken, His purposes for our lives are unhindered, and we bring true glory to His name. First Peter 2:23 (NIV) tells us, "When they hurled their insults at [Jesus], he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Srce pravi... Kdaj se bova dvignila? Razum pravi... Kdaj bova šla? Pol leta utrujaš svoje možgane, cilj pa je samo kilometer pro?.

For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge: When that comes, then work is put away.  The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers. The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

As spiritual seekers, we know that the objective knowledge we require cannot be constructed by human intellect alone. Intellect can perform many useful functions; it can divide, critique, and negate, but intellect is not the source of inspired knowledge about the purpose of life. Intellectual conjecture too often leads only to a labyrinth of opinion. Rather it is the heart that is the seat of true knowing. (p. 53)

The education of the Soul is the Great Work.

To be fully human is to fulfill our spiritual destiny.

Love is the motivation behind every yearning. In all of life, Love is seeking to discover itself. We come into this world, and we experience a profound forgetfulness; we are asleep. Everything that happens from then on is the process of waking up to the fact that Love brought us here, that we are loved by a Beneficent Unseen Reality, and that the core of our being is Love. The whole purpose and meaning of creation is to discover the secret of Love.