Quotes about Purpose

It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, 'Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!' So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to.

Your Heavenly Father's love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

Paul's suffering was neither corrective nor instructive. It was simply permitted by God so that the gospel might spread to others.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.