Quotes About Purpose

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

I hope, or I could not live.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

I just hope to make a difference.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

The church is in the hope business.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.