Quotes About Purpose

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

If you use your drafts as exploratory vehicles for that purpose, you condemn them to a major rewrite. Because every milestone requires a setup, and many require foreshadowing, neither of which is possible until you know where you're headed.

Robert Greenleaf: If caring is needed to protect an institution, what are the requirements necessary to make it work? First, the sense of purpose and objective. Second, the talent to manage the process for reaching new objectives. Finally, and let me surprise you by emphasizing this third need, we need people who care about the institution. A deep sense of caring for the institution is required for its success.

The Holy Spirit is a master craftsman in fashioning us after the likeness of Christ. He uses many different methods, many tools. Trouble is one of His tools, a precious tool. As you look at the pattern of your own life, and you see trouble staring you in the face, consider that God has sent it for a very special purpose: to expose your weakness so that you can learn to draw on the strength of Christ.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

It's so natural to think the Presence of Jesus has no greater purpose than to improve the quality of our journey through life—with quality defined as a pleasurable, satisfying, self-affirming existence—a journey where certain things don't go wrong or, if they do, they correct themselves. Marriages should work, biopsies should come back benign, ministry efforts should succeed, and we should feel pretty good about the way most things go.

So, tell me. Have you found a reason to fight yet? Buddy.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Winning or losing is not the right scorecard. Obedience is. When we do the right thing, we're being faithful. Even if we get the wrong results.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Paul portrays "God's" redemptive purpose as the conforming of the elect to "the image of his Son, in order that he [Jesus] might be the first-born [pr?totokos] among many brothers" (Rom 8:29).

Whether in the Gospels or other NT writings, the overarching emphasis is on "God's" purposes, all events, claims, and characters (including Jesus) receiving their evaluation and meaning in light of these divine purposes.

That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Life is about the decisions we make to live passionately or passively. Where's your passion?

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

That sometimes you find your way to the place that wants you most.

Lea--when a man climbs a glass mountain, it's not usually for the damn golden apple. It's for the person he gives the apple to.

No tenia claro hacia dónde debía dirigirse, pero confiaba en que, cuando llegara allí, lo sabría.

Todo tiene un sentido - replicó Christian -. Solo que a veces no encontramos las preguntas adecuadas. Pero eso no significa que esas preguntas y respuestas no existan.

He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.