Quotes About Purpose

The parable challenges us to clarify and claim our purpose and live it with absolute earnestness. Our ultimate purpose is Jesus Christ: to know Him, allow Him to love us, love Him in response, and love others as He has loved us. Each of us is called to live out that purpose in the unique circumstances and opportunities of our individual lives. That will mean several crucial things:

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

And she often reminded me that those four kids of mine were my church. With that in mind, I had to refocus on my ministry...I had been given four very special projects that would have to be seen through to completion. Someone had to instill godly principals in my children's lives, and God let me know that I was the woman for the job.

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Arminianism has no explanation as to why God purposefully and deliberately creates those who He knows will be lost and who will spend eternity in hell.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me that shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

To know God and to make Him known.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.