Quotes About Purpose

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

To bend the work of nature to your will; to make the trees of the earth useful to human beings - what could be more admirable , more exciting than this? That is what I would say to any boy who has his life before him.

Aquellos que no se entusiasman con nada se enfrían y comienzan a morirse. Hay que empezar a desear de verdad. Coger la vida con las dos manos para que no se escape, si es que comprendéis lo que quiero decir. Si no, todo está perdido.

Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?

The discussions of the prior generation, shaped by H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture (see chapter three above), still presumed "gospel" and "culture" as two disparate and divergent categories and realities. An incarnational and pentecostal approach to culture realizes that while distinct, the gospel always comes through culture and that culture can—indeed, must!—be redeemed for the purposes of the gospel.

Aren't we all, I thought, somebody's harvest?

Para todo aquel que intente discernir qué hacer con su vida: PRESTA ATENCIÓN A LAS COSAS A LAS QUE PRESTAS ATENCIÓN. No necesitas mucha más información.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.