Quotes About Purpose

In our reflecting and reasoning age, a man is not worth much who cannot give a good reason for everything, no matter how bad or crazy. Everything in the world that has been done wrong, has been done wrong for the very best of reasons.

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

Each day as we make our plan of what we need to accomplish, let us ask God to love through us. In every deed and action, every errand and responsibility, may His supernatural love be evident in all we say and do... if I am doing a plethora of great activities, but do not show love to the people around me, it is all worthless.

Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

he had stayed...because something told him that this was the life that had to be lived out.

Well, we all get on,' Sylvie said, 'one way or another. And in the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there.' It

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.