Quotes About Purpose

Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

Oh! God, my only trust went there Through all life's scenes before Lo! At the throne again I bow, New mercies to implore. Grant active power, grant fervent zeal, And guide by thy control, And ever be my country's weal The purpose of my soul. Extend, all seeing God, thy hand In memory still decree And make, to bless thy native land An instrument of me. -September 21, 1817

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

Most people do not die, they cease to exist. In order to die, you first have to live. Signed: God

This world is only an anteroom of the next. This short life is incidental compared with eternity. This world is not home to the Christian.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

Women will have but one purpose: to give birth to more of Us. That Is All! They say the great civilizations collapsed when We threatened to take over. Theyve missed the point. They collapsed because We didnt go to the inevitable limit: which is complete

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Step 3: Separate ends from means to establish your fundamental objectives.