Quotes About Purpose

For all practical decision-making purposes, we need to treat measurement as observations that quantitatively reduce uncertainty.

For all practical decision-making purposes, we need to treat measurement as observations that quantitatively reduce uncertainty. A mere reduction, not necessarily elimination, of uncertainty will suffice for a measurement.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

A right theology of wealth will equip us to handle tools rightly, doing everything we do to the glory of God.

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time. The

But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?

Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all.

whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31). This is quite true—whatever you eat or drink, on whatever day, for whatever meal. This includes, of course, the french fries, but that does not mean that you are to stand on the restaurant chair in order to thank God that you are not like other men, the ones who do not glorify God for the french fries.

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time.

I have wanted to "make books" since around the sixth grade, and I published my first book when I was in my late thirties. My point is that the time in between was not wasted—submarine service, marriage, college, bringing up three kids, starting a school for them, and so forth. This kind of life experience is not distracting you from your appointed task of writing. It is, rather, the roundabout blessing of giving you something to say.

We ought not to think that when men are converted, they each become a little lamp, and if enough of them get converted, they will be able to form a consortium and pool their lamps to try to make a sun. The vision of the coming noontime glory does not depend at all on us trying to get some momentum up. The sun has risen, and it will continue to do what rising suns do.

If there is no God, and if Christ did not come back from the dead, then the bipedal carbon unit that doesn't believe in Jesus is nothing more than 200 pounds of protoplasm with an average temperature of 98.6, and endowed by blind evolutionary processes with nothing in particular to speak of.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of him self.

Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you "I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.

Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that "we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life" (p. 87).

According to the classic Zen saying, "Do everything as you do anything.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

5 A salvação do mundo depende de ti que podes perdoar. 6 Essa é a tua função aqui.

God moves into our lives by divine design, to periodically disturb our equilibrium. That's how he develops us.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.