Quotes about Purpose

We do not exist for ourselves...

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

The more work we do for God, the more willing we shall be to die, and the sweater death will be.

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

A man may as well go to hell for not working in his calling, as for not believing.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

Better to lose our lives than the purpose of our living.