Quotes About Purpose

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

To the dumb question Why me? the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

If it should seem odd that an action should be deliberately performed in order that a foretelling be vindicated, that is because it is odd.

Death is] one thing one is certainly born to do.

I put my genius into my life, not into my art.

What is one ever doing anywhere?

I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late?

The incentive is to fight anarchy. That's all Man lives for. Reclaiming life from its natural muddle. Making patterns." "Patterns for what?" "For the sake of patterns. To create meaning. What else is there?

our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission – God's mission. Chris Wright

Mission arises from the heart of God himself, and is communicated from his heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

life is about living, not just surviving. Nobody gets out of it alive in the end, so we just have to make the most of the time we get.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. —Dag Hammarskjöld

pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

What you seek, you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality for themselves. Fill your belly. Day and night make merry, Let Days be full of joy. Love the child that holds your hand. Let your wife delight in your embrace. For these alone are the concerns of man. —The Epic of Gilgamesh

And without guilt and dread, who am I?

So that's what you think you're going to do? Bring God to everyone?" "Yes. After a nap." "Of course, I meant after a nap.

You do not cause death, you do not prevent death, you are a servant of Destiny, not its agent. Get over yourself.

This is why we send youth to war: spotty lads possessed of passion but void of purpose will cleave to the most slippery species of bullshit.

You tell soldiers what they need to hear to go to war. Bitches need a mission, not a goal.

Das Leben war Handeln, es gab keinen Frieden diesseits des Grabes.