Quotes About Purpose

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

You can get so that every step, every little obstacle on the battlefield, becomes so big that you can't see much past it, and when you do get past, it's sometimes hard to remember what the hell you were supposed to be doing.

I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.

Each of us is called to do something in the name of love, to make sure that humanity comes to understand itself and is able to choose love over fear.

True happiness is valuable because, for example, it is a sign of authenticity, and it is a way of knowing you are on purpose.

Continuing a great American tradition, the author of this book will gleefully include statistics wherever they suit his purpose. Simultaneously, he'll be employing top-secret selective amnesia techniques to deal with the fundamental problems in doing so.

we justify all the time, effort, suffering, and years and years that we devote to something by telling ourselves and others that there must be something worthwhile and important about it or we never would have so much of our lives sunk into it.

As followers of Christ, we have inherited the Family Business, so to speak. We're partners with Christ in His Father's business, created to accomplish a set of purposes that God has established in advance for us to do.

The smallest duty, if Christ assigns it and we accomplish it, is grander in God's eyes than building the pyramids or acquiring a vast domain.

Just for today we can be pleasantly productive. Just for today we can be faithful. Just for today we can resist temptation. Just for today we can choose to be joyful and to live for Jesus. Just for today we can be about the Father's business.

If we don't know what we're supposed to be doing, we do lesser things, squandering ourselves on unworthy pursuits and trying to narcotize ourselves from the nagging feeling that life is essentially empty.

We were each born on just the right day on His calendar, and we will finish our earthly tasks at just the right moment in His will.

Be careful not to spend your life laboring in secondary causes.

Little is much when God is in it! Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown – and you can win it, if you go in Jesus' name.

Does the place you're called to labor Seem too small and little known? It is great if God is in it, And He'll not forget His own. Are you laid aside from service, Body worn from toil and care? You can still be in the battle, In the sacred place of prayer. When the conflict here is ended And our race on earth is run, He will say, if we are faithful, "Welcome home, My child – well done!

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12

Is your place a small place? Tend it with care!— He set you there. Is your place a large place? Guard it with care!— He set you there. Whate'er your place, it is Not yours alone, but His Who set you there. —John Oxenham1

I will bless you . . . and you shall be a blessing. – Genesis 12:2

Be seriously cheerful, and cheerfully serious. Religion was never design'd to make our pleasures less. —Isaac Watts

As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand. – Jeremiah 18:6

God doesn't waste suffering. If He leads us into impossible spots, He will deliver us in His own time, in His own way, and for His name's sake.

The first hour in the morning is the rudder of the day. —Henry Ward Beecher

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. – John 9:4