Quotes About Purpose

In His wisdom, He purposely withholds the revelation of His glory to see if we will serve Him with love and reverence, or turn our attention to that which receives glory on the earth yet pales in comparison to Him.

If we do not carry God's truth and light to this world, no one will.

Liberty is to be used to serve others. There is freedom in serving but bondage in slavery. A slave is one who has to serve, while a servant is one who lives to serve.

Decisions without actions are pointless. Actions without decisions are reckless.

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn't do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.

Crushing the toddler's autonomy and purposeful will is the most damaging form of shaming that can be done. When autonomy is crushed, toxic shame is manifested either as total conformity or rebellion against authority. Once willpower, anger and purpose are bound in shame, a child's selfhood and personal power are severely wounded. His drive for separateness and autonomy are bound by shame. This has been called a "purpose shame bind.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. This is the fate that lies at the end of the journey of ever-deepening toxic shame.

we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

Reframing my life with my wonder child helped me to see that everything in my childhood prepared me for what I'm doing now. The purpose I found in my meditation was that I am here to be myself and to proclaim my human freedom and to help others do the same.

We are not material beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

In divorcing salvation from achievement, the Christian had established the priority of being over doing.

In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one... Buchan, John. Salute to Adventurers (p. 172). Kindle Edition.

But one day (amongst all the sermons our parson made) his subject was, to treat of the Sabbath day, and of the evil of breaking that, either with labour, sports or otherwise.  (Now, I was, notwithstanding my religion, one that took much delight in all manner of vice, and especially that was the day that I did solace myself therewith): wherefore I fell in my conscience under his sermon, thinking and believing that he made that sermon on purpose to show me my evil doing. 

porque así como el cuerpo sin alma no es otra cosa sino un cadáver muerto, así las palabras si no tienen obras son también un cadáver muerto.

What are the things you seek, since you leave all the world to find them?" "I seek an incorruptible inheritance," Christian answered.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Nobody finishes well by accident.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.