Quotes About Purpose

as he made Job, and though Job has probably never in his life even considered Behemoth and Leviathan, they are as ingredient in the complex weave of God's providence as is Job. The overall point of God's speech seems to be this: the suffering of any one person must be seen within the context of the infinitely subtle working out of God's purposes throughout the whole of space and time.

Evangelism is not an optional accessory to our life. It is the heartbeat of all that we are called to be and do. It is the commission of the church that gives meaning to all else that is undertaken in the name of Christ.

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

A few people so dedicated in time will shake the world for God. Victory is never won by the multitudes.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

When you spend your day doing things you believe are important, your life has meaning. Conversely, when you spend your day doing things that make no sense to you, you feel empty, frustrated and angry.

For Aristotle, it is not within our power to seek anything else, and thus /all/ acts have for their basic purpose the attainment of happiness or that which is good in itself and not merely as a means to something else.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

It is the very design of life to support life.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

In the creative process you do not make choices about what you do not want. You make choices about what you do want.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

But yield who will to their separation,My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future's sakes.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

In judging of the rich, two things should be considered: How did they get it, and what are they doing with it? Was it honestly acquired? Is it being used for the benefit of mankind? When people become really intelligent, when the brain is really developed, no human being will give his life to the acquisition of what he does not need or what he cannot intelligently use.