Quotes About Purpose

There are reasons for everything we do.

The place you are right now God circled on a map for you.

The purpose behind each individual sermon is to secure some moral action. We need to know what that action is.

The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?

What interests us the most in Africa today, is the collaboration for the purpose of achieving unity for the benefit of Africa and as a contribution to world peace.

A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Gyvenim? pradedi auksin?mis svajon?mis apie bekraš?ius miškus, o pabaigoje džiaugiesi vienui vienu medžiu. Toks ir yra kiekvienos gyvos b?tyb?s tikslas - iškirsti svajones.

teaching itself no longer spoke to her heart. Not in the uncomplicated way that her sock-sorting did.

The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. The very purpose of revelation and of scripture is to remind us that our hearts need to be nourished.

Act for your world as if you will live forever, and act for your Hereafter as if you are going to die tomorrow.

Cells require oxygen, so we breathe. If we stop breathing, we die. The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. The very purpose of revelation and of scripture is to remind us that our hearts need to be nourished.

One should instead desire what will serve one's Hereafter.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

I'm begging you, Taz, don't die a hero with no cause.

Jeder Mensch wird gebraucht, nur merkt das leider nicht jeder.