Quotes About Purpose

Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Parece no haber más propósito en la variabilidad de los seres vivientes y en la acción de la selección natural que en la dirección en la sopla el viento.

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things

When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better. -Cold Mountain

The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument against the notion that things just happen.

When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

The mission statement provides the WHY that inspires the HOW.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

See now, God made all these things; and never a man, perhaps, set eyes on them till fifty years agone; and yet they were as pretty as they are now, ever since the making of the world. And why do you think God could have put them here, then, but to please Himself—and Amyas took off his hat—with the sight of them? Now, I say, brother Frank, what's good enough to please God, is good enough to please you and me.

I may not touch a million lives, but I may touch the one that does.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.

The Lord doesn't need anything "special" from you or me. He certainly doesn't need our counsel. When He sovereignly chooses you to do something great, He doesn't need your advice on how to go about it.

God has called each one of us to his work in his time." —NO RUSTY SWORDS

Discipline is not so much the way by which we are constrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction.

To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism ... but to be a man." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.

The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.