Quotes About Purpose

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to eliminate hunger. Yet we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

Timothy Keller makes the point well: Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom. (Keller, Walking with God, 47)

Her secrets to longevity: Do not be jealous or angry, take walks, do not stress about life, and live in gratitude. She is a wealthy woman, rich in love, meaning, and purpose. And she has no ailments except a slow thyroid and a little arthritis.

And your God-given purpose in life is to maximize your potential. You must use the gifts God gave you in order to be fulfilled in life. If you are not fulfilled, it is because you have not yet learned to operate in your gifts.

Living "biblically," I would suggest, means recognizing our place in God's story and living in such a way that we reflect his nature and purpose in the world.

When God's people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.

Worship turns out to be the dangerous act of waking up to God and to the purposes of God in the world, and then living lives that actually show it.

People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.

Cohesion: each function should have a single, unified purpose. When designed well, each of your functions should do one thing — something you can summarize in a simple declarative sentence. If that sentence is very broad (e.g., "this function implements my whole program"), or contains lots of conjunctions (e.g., "this function gives employee raises and submits a pizza order"), you might want to think about splitting it into separate and simpler functions.

But I was right and the real world seemed increasingly nonsensical. Why train for years to do a job you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time? I didn't want to be a lawyer or a bank manager or a goddamn burger flipper. We only get one life and I wanted mine to be exciting...

Like most people my age, I merely existed.

Why train for years to do a job, you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

In other words, journalists should not seek and report facts as news, but launder their news gathering priorities and the facts themselves through a progressive ideology to give them meaning and purpose.

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.

It is a common misconception — pervasive and tenacious, but a misconception nonetheless — that arses are made for sitting on. It seems, instead, they are made for running.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

If you write for money or fame you will be disappointed. If you do so for the love of it, you will be rich in satisfaction.

Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win... ...you fight them merely because they need to be fought. -Snagglepuss

Everything you do, everything you'll ever accomplish, your life's work, your kids' life's work: horseshit. (Ecclesiastes) [God Is Disappointed in You]

Changing times require you to continually question your processes, procedures, mind-set, and attitudes. The only constant in times of change might be your purpose and principles; everything else needs to evolve based on the changing world around you.

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!