Quotes About Purpose

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.

Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)

There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and   delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary,   regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at   the proper time.

this insolence was turned by the providence of God to a very different purpose; for the face of Christ, dishonoured by spitting and blows, has restored to us that image which had been disfigured, and almost effaced, by sin.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People

The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal. Therefore

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

the glory of God   is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So

the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When