Quotes About Purpose

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

A Shrunken Gospel We make the gospel too small by thinking it only "gets us saved," that it is a sort of fire insurance, without understanding that it has implications for all of life.

Mindful awareness—or mindfulness—spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are.

Relaxation, peace and contentment are the by-products of the work you are doing, not its goal.

The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

Christ taught that the kingdom of God was a community where each member served the others. He defined His ultimate purpose using that term. But in most churches, a few people carry the load.

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.

Knowledge without action is empty as a shadow.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do.

The longest journeyIs the journey inwardsOf him who has chosen his destiny.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.