Quotes about Purpose
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
— Thomas Merton
IF you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.
— Thomas Merton
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.
— Thomas Merton
We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we can everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others, yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must find ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
Therefore each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.
— Thomas Merton
You and I and all men were made to find our identity in the One Mystical Christ, in Whom we all complete one another "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ.
— Thomas Merton
Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
I am a child of God, I am the offspring of the King, and therefore I am an heir to His kingdom! And just like Jesus, I still have work to do.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
And whatever defines us has power over us. Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
There is a purpose in everything that God allows. Second
— Kay Arthur
One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).
— Kay Arthur
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
— CS Lewis