Quotes About Purpose

a genius of means, barren of ends

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.

Divine purpose is able to preserve you, if you will find shelter in the ark of God's presence.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.

How did you know that what you sought was redemption and not righteous vengeance?

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

prayer can detonate mission.

Human beings write stories, and read them, for the same good reason: to live

and one of their lessons was that the essence of the work was the doing of it.

We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

Destiny? My destiny is what I make of it!

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.

People say, "You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for." That's rock and roll!

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.