Quotes About Purpose

a life without love, is no life at all

Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others.    ââ'¬â€ALBERT EINSTEIN I

When the Americans flocked to pragmatism, they believed that they were joining a battle to advance their essential view of reality and of life. They did not know that they were being marched in the opposite direction, that the battle had been calculated for a diametrically opposite purpose, or that the enemy they were being pushed to destroy was: themselves.

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve-Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues ... 20

Do the stars have a meaning? Then my life has a meaning.

The church needs to be so clear about its identity as the body of Christ that everything it does generates a gravitational pull toward the heart.

The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.

Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. But Jesus Christ is the gravitational pull that brings everything together and gives it meaning. Without Him, all things lose their value. They are but detached pieces floating around in space. That includes your life.1

You never get a blessing for yourself. You get a blessing to bless others. In the words of the black church, "a blessing can't get to you unless it first can go through you." We are blessed to bless.

Whatever God calls you to do, it's going to be bigger than you are.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.

There is nothing in all nature without its reason, he wrote. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience.

As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well-employed life brings a happy death.

Live full, die empty

You are what you are because that is what you really want to be! We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are! You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.

Faith is when God and man choose to walk together in life, to think together, and I'd even say, to laugh together. For the faith life is the happiest life. Faith has no relationship with idleness. It has to do with a man who gets out there and goes for God, and God goes for him.