Purpose Quotes - Page 11

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself?...And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.