Quotes About Purpose

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here.

that acknowledgment, applause, and honor are welcome and add zest to life but they are not ends to be pursued. I felt then, as I do now, that what matters is what you do and how you do it, the quality of the time you spend, and the people you share it with.

If you do this, what do you want to happen? and If you do this, what do you think will happen?

no species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. Species may have vast potential for material and mental progress but they lack any immanent purpose or guidance from agents beyond their immediate environment or even an evolutionary goal toward which their molecular architecture automatically steers them.

The ultimate explanation is why we have two hands and ten fingers to start with, and why are we prone with them to do thus and so and not something else.

as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place

Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.

Make me, O Lord, thy spinning-wheel complete.

Your life is not your own. It belongs to God. Here is the viewpoint of the free! They are able to share in God's glory because they don't take unto themselves what is not theirs. As it once was, it can be again.

Doing, doing, doing!' cries the teenager. 'Why do I have to do anything anyway?!' Here, the adult is usually stuck for an answer. They know the usual answer, (you have to work to live) but the teen knows the reality… their parents are miserable from doing exactly this. Which is why, God has to come first... because that's where freedom is.

Life has no purpose. It just 'is.' This is the 'secret' children know and adults forget as they launch head first into a life of compulsion and bondage as they pursue the world. Children do not appropriate and are free. Adults desire the wrong things and throw themselves into exile.

Giving life 'purpose' is anthropomorphism. It is our own desire for ends or completion. The door is already open. There is nothing to complete, only to know. Heaven on Earth is here.

It seems that's it for me and what's a soul to do then? What's a soul to do?" "Simply go on loving her." "So I seem to be doing but what's the sense of it? Where does it lead?" The frail hand tightened on his and then was gone. Haj Harun knelt in front of him and held him by the shoulders, his face serious. "You're still young, Prester John. Don't you see it leads nowhere? It's an end in itself.

From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

She told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.

They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.

Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.