Quotes About Purpose

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

podemos vivir sanos indefinidamente pero a condición de saber alimentarnos correctamente, de saber relacionarnos correctamente, de saber conocernos y aceptarnos y amarnos y dar sentido a nuestra vida, de saber ser felices y saber amar.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

The whole of the argument of the advocate of the wider teleology is that God wanted the higher type. But if that is so why did he not produce it at once? What useful purpose could be served by producing at the end of a lengthy and murderous process what might just as well have been secured at the beginning?

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

we better be living the life we want to live and not wasting our numbered days on what doesn't matter.

What we leave behind, Lord, surely needs to be of spiritual value, for my oh my, how quickly the rest of it can vanish." Katie

This is our gracious will.

There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

If God's so good, why didn't he give you a jump shot?

I don't know what to make of myself. A lot of the time, despite my deepest hungers and best efforts, I see blackness. But I am planting a young oak tree. I really am. It'll be here centuries after I'm gone. Assuming I choose to leave.

Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.

It is more important to be than to do, for if I am what God wants me to be, then I will do what He wants me to do. If I try to promote a program, however well-meaning, without personal holiness, it will be tainted by the defects of my life. It may lack the direction of full knowledge of the Word, or the discernment of maturity, or the direction that comes through unclouded fellowship with the Lord. Primarily we do not need to develop programs, but people.

A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the outworking of God's purpose. If

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.