Quotes About Purpose

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.

True Tenacity is in the Uncovering of the Purpose of Existence Rather than in the Pursuit of Existence.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.

Thoughts like mine are not reckoned among the delights of life. It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything. I do not prove anything, only tire myself; but have the satisfaction that another day has passed, or another night gone by. I

It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I...