Quotes About Purpose

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.