Quotes About Purpose

Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?

As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

God uniquely created your DNA and knit your frame in secret so he could surprise the world. He authored how your heart expresses itself; he was the architect of your smile and the melody of your voice; he made all of your features with the fondest thoughts of only you in mind. He celebrated along with your parents your first smile and watched with affection your first steps.

Beautiful things should not be kept behind glass, they should be used. Just as beautiful women should live fully and not let herself turn into a hothouse flower, pampered and useless.

It's a good idea when you believe you're running toward something. But it can get awfully complicated when you're running from something.

Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

Because it's one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.

Aber niemand verdient sein Leben. Es ist ein Geschenk, das jedem gegeben ist. Es ist nicht deine Aufgabe, zu entscheiden, ob du es verdienst oder nicht.

You should do something because you love it, not just because you're good at it.

I think the hard thing for you Abbie is not going to be getting what you want in life but figuring out what that is. Once you know what you want - really truly- I know you'll get it.

great leaders do not set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It is never about the role- it is always about the goal

We can travel all over the world in a soul quest to "find ourselves" and answer proverbial questions about the meaning of life.

God can use bad events for His glory, but that doesn't mean He's behind them.

People try and make out there's a greater purpose, a secret meaning, that it all means something. And it doesn't.

The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior.

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.