Quotes About Purpose

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

The goal of the Christian is not to become like Jesus; because as He is, so are we in this world.

God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.

Understand this: the extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing! In other words,

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms...But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

But a man who values nothing is hardly alive at all.

What exactly are you planning to put on the claim? Act of God?

Daß es kein Unglück gibt außer dem, nicht zu leben. Und am Ende keine Verzweiflung außer der, nicht gelebt zu haben.

One must neither passively yield to fate ("God has brought it about") nor obstinately protest against it ("Satan did it"), but rather ask oneself, "How can I best use this situation for the advance of God's Kingdom?" This is a very creative question-and it is also biblical. The promise in Romans 8:28 reads, "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

But here we may well ask what we are living for - if we are living to give up to the influence of environment, visible or invisible, or if we are living to attain such full control over the powers and talents that are within us, that we can not only control, modify and perfect environment, but also so perfectly control ourselves that we can become all that nature intends that we should become.

We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

Here is where Darwin's ideas encountered the strongest resistance, lasting up to the present day; they implied a lack of purpose in nature.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Simon périssait de tristesse, c'est évident, mais en même temps, la vie qu'il menait, depuis si longtemps, cette vie d'ingénieur, j'ose à peine le dire, semblait parfaitement lui convenir. La prétendue vocation nous trompe tout le temps. J'en said quelque chose. On pense être fait pour telle chose. On est fait pour telle autre. Et encore, pas sûr.

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Throughout my many years of illness, I have never ... to ask[ed] God why He allowed me to suffer so long, I only ask what He wants me to do.

If I'm passionate about something, I always know that I'm meant to do it. Excitement about something always means that you're aligned with who you really are!

When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.