Quotes About Purpose

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent.

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.