Quotes About Purpose

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

What is your work in this world?" "I don't know what it is yet. I'm back in school now." "It's getting pretty late in the day for you to have so few interests and convictions. How old are you, Mr. Midge?

Nothing I like to do pays well.

We are to learn to understand ourselves now as those who have been placed on the way and no longer can do anything other than walk in it." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Lord, help me to wait expectantly, to act purposefully, and to trust You to see me through to the end. Amen.

God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

The man who does not work for the love of work, but only for money, is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.

The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

First priority becomes first action.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. C.S.LEWIS

THIS IS A BOOK about the good life—not the good life touted in Budweiser commercials or on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous or MTV Cribs, but the good life that you and I want to live when we reflect about what really matters.

What they fail to reckon with, however, is the reverse of that slogan: if nothing is worth dying for, is anything worth living for?

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our sucess; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements. He demands our obedience.

see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximized his utility.

Enter to grow in wisdom.Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.