Quotes About Purpose

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

All men die. Only a few ever live.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.