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Quotes About Purpose

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
~ Mircea Eliade
We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
~ Tony Dungy
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
~ Timothy Keller
I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.
~ Catherine Booth
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
~ Angelus Silesius
Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!
~ Dwight L. Moody
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
~ Pope John XXIII
If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.
~ Nina Gunter
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
~ Sigmund Freud
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.
~ J. D. Greear
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.
~ Louie Giglio
If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.
~ Rich Mullins
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
~ Christine Caine
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
~ C. S. Lewis
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
~ Ricky Gervais
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
~ G.K. Chesterton
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
~ Forrest Church
Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
~ Rick Warren
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
~ PZ Myers