Quotes About Purpose

The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God's highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.

The goal of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me—sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God.

God has only one intended destiny for mankind—holiness. His only goal is to produce saints.

When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God's blessing is never on it.

Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful—just the everyday activities of life—do I hear God's assurance even in these?

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

To be alive is to be committed." ---Oswald Rivera

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Más vale una vida breve, llena de hazañas y de nobleza, que una vida larga sin contenido

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

forget wishing. your missing the ambition of your mission

fuck wishing. you're missing the ambition on your mission.

I would recommend that the reader picture the final participation as a direction in which we had all better be moving, rather than as a beatific consummation at which we might in some remote future arrive.

In moderation, goals and other external motivators are powerful, but when they become the exclusive drives to do anything, it's overwhelming.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

And if it wasn't as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn't a point, as far as I was concerned.

Was there any meaning to the life he had led? Not even that did he believe in. But this was something he knew nothing about. It was not for him to judge.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.