Quotes About Purpose

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

To live without loving is not really to live.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.