Quotes about Purpose
Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.
— Joyce Meyer
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
— Marianne Williamson
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
— Thomas Merton
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
— Aristotle
God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Rest as if you'll live forever; work as if you'll die today.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your talents determine what you should do; your character, where you end up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.
— Max Lucado
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
— Max Lucado
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
— Max Lucado
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
— Max Lucado