Quotes About Purpose

Genesis is not metaphysically neutral—it mandates an affirmation of teleology (purpose), even as it leaves open the descriptive mechanism for material origins.

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother! Surely we are not lost--while we live.

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

The human soul knows that growth is the only reason for its existence. [Hopkins quoting S. Bellow]

the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

you know, get going." "Sure.

Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission." "You're an oaf with a delusion.

I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.

Challenge Question What role do you let loving play in your making a living?

Joinery, it now occurs to me, must be the foundation of all craft. You put two things together to make something else, to accomplish some purpose; the better they fit, or work together, the greater the pleasure from the making.

The baseline level—that's where we stumble and fall, that's where we go through the motions. And that's where most of us live, most of the time. But the health of a society can be measured by how often and how meaningfully its people are able to reach that higher plane, to live lives bigger than they are.

I couldn't give as good as I'd gotten. Why? Plain and simple: I hadn't gotten into politics to serve the Republican Party. From the very beginning, I've told people the Republican Party was my vehicle, not my master

No lo entiendes: ella había nacido para morir. Yo nací para matar. Simplemente, era cuestión de que nos encontráramos el uno al otro.

In a way, he'd been triangulated, in much the same way one finds his location when lost in the woods. Three pillars: who he was, who he'd become, who he needed to be.

Admiro al salmón porque comprendo lo que significa ser empujado por fuerzas que los demás no pueden ver, sentir ni oír, y percibir la obligación de un deber más importante que uno mismo.

A veces pienso que nos pasamos tanto tiempo tomando precauciones contra eventualidades terribles que no nos queda gran cosa que valga la pena.

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do.

He described the securities—called Abacus—to a girlfriend: I had some input into the creation of this product (which by the way is a product of pure intellectual masturbation, the type of thing which you invent telling yourself 'Well, what if we created a "thing," which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?').15

It is your duty and responsibility to become successful,