Quotes About Purpose

It ain't right, Celeste said. It just ain't right to go and do what they bought you for. Why make it easy?

Capital erosion was another way to waste his substance, to become as thin and hollow as he felt, to lighten the burden of undeserved good fortune, and commit a symbolic suicide while he still dithered about the real one. He also nursed the opposite fantasy that when he became penniless he would discover some incandescent purpose born of his need to make money.

in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.

Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God).

God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

God has determined that run-of-the-mill people do most of his work—

Screwtape warns Wormwood] Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's [God's] will, looks around upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.4

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance. How

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane reading would often be centered on themes. On some flights I would read only newspapers and magazines, catching up on one particular event. On other flights I would read a short novel, and finishing the entire book during the flight would give me a great thrill, as if I'd just flown a cross-Atlantic mission with Amelia Earhart.

Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.

There is no preparation for a good death but a good life.

While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world.

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.