Quotes about Purpose
God's role is to give us the vision to know what we need to do, to bless us with the qualities of soul that we will need in order to do them ourselves, no matter how hard they may be, and to accompany us on that journey.
— Harold S. Kushner
True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.
— Harold S. Kushner
More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.
— Harold S. Kushner
We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.
— Harold S. Kushner
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
— Harold S. Kushner
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can't feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, "Why do we have to feel pain?" to "What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?
— Harold S. Kushner
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
— Harry S. Truman
Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.
— Harry S. Truman
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
— LeBron James
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? Sir John Templeton.
— Lee Strobel
God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.
— Lee Strobel
Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
— Leo Buscaglia