Quotes About Purpose

What is the point of building a large nervous system if your life is over in a year or two? The machinery of intelligence is expensive, both to build and to run.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

los héroes atractivos y las historias con propósito acechan en los rincones de nuestras vidas, listas para que las contemos.

Una historia con un propósito claro es una llamada a la acción: asegúrese de emitirlo.

To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their main subjects were biology and mathematics. A purpose behind them, the purpose that steered both them and the school, had caused them to align their own fates as closely as possible with God.

Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

Cilv?kiem, kuriem ir iekš?jie resursi, pareizie notikumi iest?jas. Tie izskat?s p?c nejauš?b?m. Bet tie rodas aiz nepieciešam?bas.

Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people," he said. "Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.

So crows must spend a lot of the day wondering what they are supposed to do now, what they are here for, and that seemed like a cruel existential dilemma for anyone who didn't have TV.

I think he tried to live every day just so he wouldn't die.

God is not an "object" of scientific observation in this world. Even if you understood every individual part of a Ford motor car, took it apart and analyzed each piece, you still wouldn't find Henry Ford. And the car would no longer run. Yet a whole [running] Ford motor car is a beautiful testimony to a person named Henry Ford. God may not be a thing in His world, yet the whole thing can bear testimony to it's maker.

Story--plot--gives meaning to each page. If you could number all the pages so that you knew their exact sequence and which page was yours, life would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the book was about.

The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.

The deepest story is not The Fall. The deepest story is not your sin. The deepest story is that God is making you in His image. Jesus is His image, and you are His Temple, Body, and Bride. The deepest story is that God is making you in His Image and will not fail.

We can write ourselves out of our own story, but not out of God's Story, the Deepest Story.

We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.

I concede to my atheist opponents that belief or unbelief is a choice. As a choice, it is based upon desire. I desire, and therefore choose to believe in, one kind of universe, one that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. The unbeliever desires, and therefore chooses to believe in, a chaotic universe where the dead remain dead and actions have no effect beyond their immediately observable consequences.

Even the raven started out in human form, and he fumbled blindly, and his actions were haphazard until it was revealed to him who he was and what his purpose was.

There has to be some theme to your work - some objective - something you want to know. There has to be a story line.

Always remember your focus determines your reality.

The precision of existence can never be known by the human mind. That's why the goal of every woman and man is to become human, but the purpose of being human is to leave everything human behind. To discover this precision, one has to stop being a human and start being the mystery of life itself.

And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,