Quotes about Purpose
When we hear the Word preached, are we generally looking to have a need met (for example, to be entertained or to gather some practical advice) or are we primarily desiring to understand the original meaning of the text and apply it to our lives?
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Our own life has to be our message.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.
— Thomas a Kempis
Man proposes, but God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!
— Thomas a Kempis
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
— Thomas a Kempis
Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.
— Thomas a Kempis
Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.
— Thomas a Kempis
There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?
— Thomas a Kempis