Quotes About Purpose

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Ik zat eraan te denken dat ik nooit zou geloven dat dit leven met zijn liefde, streven naar waarheid en geluk, zijn weerlichten en verre ruisen van water in deze nacht zinloos en redeloos was, wie dat ook mocht beweren. Ieder van ons moet – alom en altijd, en tot aan het einde van zijn dagen – strijden voor de verankering van dit leven. == 1946

What I mean is, even a dumbass like me can think everything's pointless. Why do I get up and eat? It all ends up shit anyway. Why am I going to school and studying? Even if I happen to succeed I'm going to die anyway. You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. But… but, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not amount to much but they fill up our emptiness.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

You were born to be amazing.

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.

Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.

The truth is, Jesus didn't die for junk.

The goal of all enemy assaults is to scare us out of our divine destiny.

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general.

As Romans 8:28 assures us, "We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Walking seasons are marked by our initiatives to co-labor with God's divine purposes, to extend the borders of the Kingdom into the lives of others.

Meditating on the prophetic words spoken over our lives reminds us of God's desire for our future and His ability to fulfill our destiny.

Between God's promises in our life and the palace of our divine purpose is always the process that molds us into the person we need to be to stay seated in the palace.

I'm strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.

Now is a powerful time in this country for young people and others to be asking the question, What are we for? Do we exist for some reason other than competing with China or finding the best possible technological advances?

We knew what we were against. We just didn't know what we were for.

As Morgan freeman once said, Get busy living or get busy dying.

something worse than death awaited all who remained: loss of free will. To give up would have been to dishonour those who had perished fighting for the good of all the lands. In their deaths we found the spirit and courage to go on. It gave us new purpose.

The reason or dog's evolution could be to guide humans to their higher purpose.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.