Quotes About Purpose

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?'" We

Relatively few contemporary Christians are prepared to suffer for the faith, because the therapeutic society that has formed them denies the purpose of suffering in the first place, and the idea of bearing pain for the sake of truth seems ridiculous.

The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

Religious Man, who lived according to belief in transcendent principles that ordered human life around communal purposes, had given way to Psychological Man, who believed that there was no transcendent order and that life's purpose was to find one's own way experimentally.

Christianity has become a secondary foundation in people's lives, not the main foundation. Now it's all about career, material success, and one's standing in society.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it," said G. K. Chesterton.

En otras palabras, nuestra cultura actual está basada en el culto al deseo, y en lugar de enseñarnos a qué debemos renunciar si queremos seguir perteneciendo a esta civilización, nos dice que, como seres autónomos con capacidad de elección, debemos desprendernos de las antiguas prohibiciones para descubrir el sentido y el propósito de nuestra existencia.

SJW ranks are full of middle-class, secular, educated young people wracked by guilt and anxiety over their own privilege, alienated from their own traditions, and desperate to identify with something, or someone, to give them a sense of wholeness and purpose.

Hebrews 10:21-25 describes the purpose for our encounter with God: And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

it was not always war with its urgent necessities that could pull people together and turn a vision into a practical project.

Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity.

Without having a clear objective, accountability serves no real purpose, is tough to measure, hard to implement, and is difficult to sustain over time.

The very best teams all have one thing in common—their members share a common purpose and feel accountable for a common outcome.

nous risquons maintenant de mourir par excès de moyen et par absence de fins.

I wish to be, I can be, I have the right to be, I have the ability to be. I swear to myself that this will never be for my personal profit, but to help others. I wish to be, to help others. This is to be understood as a vow.

Quick and able as some participants were, the Movements were not and have never been intended for professional dancers.

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Le bon Dieu l'a fait expres pour vous donner plaisir.

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown, Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine, Staying home to watch the rain, You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun.