Quotes About Purpose

History as it comes from the hand of God has a preordained meaning and direction, and it moves to a purpose neither decreed by man nor conducive to man's sin. As a result, man is in revolt against history. Man pits against history the imagination of his fallen heart.

If God wants [my] company, musn't we say that God wants the company of all those who have made [me] to be [me]?

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Live with inspired purpose and empowering enthusiasm. You are an immortal, spiritual being; live as you are meant to live.

How we experience life is in direct relationship to our inner condition: to our psychological health and maturity and our understanding of the purpose for living, and what we are willing to do to live our lives successfully.

Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs from the beginning of time to future eternity. Religion is thus uniquely capable of offering high-level meaning to human life. Religion may not always be the best way to make life meaningful, but it is probably the most reliable way.

Just think, your not here by chance, but by God's choosing you. His hand formed you, He made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else -- your on of a kind. You lack nothing His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

Roy Peter Clark

battle the clock with a set of focusing questions: Why does the story matter? What's the point? Why is the story being told? What does the story say about life, the world, the times we live in?

Y aquellas alas de mariposa azul de qué nos sirven? preguntarán los que nacieron sin alas. ¿De qué nos sirve eso que flota en el vago azul de los sueños? Contesta el poeta: -Pour des certains êtres sublimes, planer c'est servir.

A ideia de que a medicina é uma luta contra a morte está errada. A medicina é uma luta pela vida boa, da qual a morte faz parte.

A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.

Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves. Maybe we're not supposed to know and when we're finished filling the world with parking lots, muffin shops and Starbucks, our point on Earth is finished and with one big cataclysmic boom we'll be gone.

My final word on this is that only if you find something you love doing and then do it, is life worth living.

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain

You don't learn how to win by losing on purpose.

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.