Quotes About Purpose

The wind spoke. The water sang. All sound had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

The extent of a man's greatness is determined by his ability to follow his proper direction. We create our own destinies, and yet we do not. We forge a new path as we proceed, and yet the path already exists beforehand, though it is not always well marked. This is the paradox of life; and a paradox is not a riddle to be solved, but a place to dwell in, if only for a brief time.

Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now

Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

Este es el horror del hombre moderno: porque su fin es la nada, él no es nada.

If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.

Richard Dawkins' assessment of human worth may be depressing, but why, given atheism, is he mistaken when he says, "There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference.… We are machines for propagating DNA.… It is every living object's sole reason for being"?

The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.

If each individual person passes out of existence when he dies, then what ultimate meaning can be given to his life?

there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.

All he knows is that he has done exactly what he was supposed to do.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

Una de las grandes tragedias de nuestra existencia es ver cómo tantos hombres y mujeres desperdician sus vidas. El

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

product of service. Instead

They looked as if they were trying to threaten their own destination into appearing.

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.