Quotes About Purpose

Mi intención es seguir aprendiendo y mejorando cada año por el resto de mi vida. Dios no lo llevará a convertirse en algo sin ayudarle a ser lo mejor que posiblemente pueda ser en ese campo. No le dará un talento para luego fallar en darle la oportunidad de descubrirlo, usarlo, desarrollarlo, practicarlo y perfeccionarlo.

God uses the circumstances of our lives to reveal His will to us.

God is more interested in our character, our future, and our sanctification than He is in our momentary satisfaction. His answers are always an act of grace, motivated by His love.

El Señor es el autor y consumador de nuestras vidas; no solo de nuestra fe, sino de todos los aspectos del potencial que ha levantado en nosotros.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

In this country ... men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

I wonder if the falcon knows of his gift of grace. Does he ever just take upon wing for the pure joy of it. He seems only to fly with purpose. He cares not of my envy. Mocking me as he dances with angels. But in my dreams I soar with him among the clouds, the cool breeze on my face as we climb higher. Perhaps one day I will know when I'm in the presence of God. For surely he will grant me this that I've dreamed.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Life: What you choose to make it.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. But 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.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.