Quotes About Purpose

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've had a product first. It's immoral not to get in and work and get your hands dirty.

Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else -- pathway to the stars, maybe.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.

The desire to retire is an expression of despair. It means that you have lost your rudder and do not know why you are here or where you are going.

Death is at work in every person. It is the natural progression of life. Paul realized this and elected to participate willingly by purposely putting himself to death by spending his life on others.

God makes you an incredible offer:You can give your life in exchange for the same thing for which Jesus spent His life – people. People last forever. For good or bad, they are eternal. Spend your life helping them prepare for their eternity. Don't give your life to mediocrity. Life is too short and the issues of eternity too significant.

View every day as a school day and every relationship as an opportunity to learn. There is no such thing as an accidental encounter. Each person you meet has been sent by God for your edification.

God distributes in unequal amounts certain gifts, abilities, and opportunities. The sickly person with few gifts who dies early is not handicapped in the economy of God. Your reward in heaven will not be determined by what God gave you, but by what you do with what God gave you and why you do it.

Jeremiah is frequently misunderstood as a doomsday spokesman or a pitiful man who had a grudge and sat around crying; but his public and personal grief was for another reason and served another purpose. Jeremiah embodies the alternative consciousness of Moses in the face of the denying king.9 He grieves the grief of Judah because he knows what the king refuses to know.

It is no obvious or "natural" matter to resituate our lives with reference to the holy power and purpose of God. But that is what we do in prayer.

As every vibrant subcommunity knows, the defining prerequisite for such a subcommunity is a conviction that it can and will be different because of the purposes of God that will not relent.