Quotes About Purpose

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born, to die?

It's all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.

For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.

The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

Ministries come and go, but the mission of the Church remains constant.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

All human actions which are worked out to the end, passing through the un-forseeable contingencies of a "world we never made" follow a similar course: the conscious purpose with which they start is redefined after each unforeseen contingency is suffered; and at the end, in the light of hindsight, we see the truth of what we have been doing.

In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.

men had been everywhere and had seen everything, life's greatest experience had ended with most of life still to be lived, to find common purpose in the quiet days of peace would be hard

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If men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, ... then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom; for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle.

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

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 that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.