Quotes About Purpose

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Remember why you are here and why you are alive. Have faith in your dreams no matter how far they might seem.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.

Football doesn't define me. It's what I do [and] how I carry out my faith.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

Without hope there is no faith and without faith it is impossible to love. If we do not embrace love we cannot embrace hope and therefore have no purpose.