Quotes About Purpose

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

If I am doing a good show and I am satisfied with it, and can convey a message or bring a change in the thought process of the society, my purpose is served.

History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times, it's a result of thoughtless omissions.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.

You can write a thousand lists and make a million vision boards, but if you don't clearly feel what you want to experience, it will never truly manifest into form.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

In practical terms, you're only responsible for what you say and do. Beware frittering away this precious lifetime by trying to make it all about energy. You asked for a human life, and now you've got one.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a happy and uncomplicated life.

Nothing happens by chance.

I can only strive for what is important

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

As the psychologist Carl Jung put it: 'I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become';

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

The purpose of Biblical history is to trace the victory of Jesus Christ.