Quotes about Purpose
If something did not love you you would not be here.
— Cormac McCarthy
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.
— Cormac McCarthy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy. I suppose that's true. What then? Is that all that the world has in mind? If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.
— Cormac McCarthy
Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing
— Craig Groeschel
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.
— Craig Groeschel
God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.
— Craig Keener
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
— DH Lawrence
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
— DH Lawrence
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
— DH Lawrence
Man is a mistake. He must go.
— DH Lawrence
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.
— DH Lawrence
What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.
— DH Lawrence