Quotes about Purpose

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.

God has loved us first, and he has made us for himself. He "desires" our love, and so he leaves us free, for true love cannot be coerced.

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

This insolence was turned by the providence of God to a very different purpose; for the face of Christ, dishonored by spitting and blows, has restored to us that image which had been disfigured, and almost effaced, by sin.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end.

The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal.