Quotes about Purpose
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
— Ecclesiastes 2:3
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 2:11
So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 2:15
For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
— Ecclesiastes 2:22
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
What does the worker gain from his toil?
— Ecclesiastes 3:9
I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
— Ecclesiastes 3:10
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
— Ecclesiastes 3:14
What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.
— Ecclesiastes 3:15
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:18
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 3:19