Quotes About Purpose

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.