Quotes about Purpose

When God decided this world needed you, He created a village to surround you, and His presence is ever with you.

We are the answers with problems to solve

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

For truly a dark and murderous enemy has already realized who you are. He knows your potential and is systematically trying to undermine your future. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.