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Purpose Quotes - Page 26

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.353

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.63, Harper Collins

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 02, 2011

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.131, Jaico Publishing House

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.71, Penguin

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.350, Editora Dracaena

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Donald McChesney, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1968). “A Hopkins Commentary: an Explanatory Commentary on the Main Poems, 1876-89”

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

On the fruitlessness of keeping Russian fishermen from waters that should be off limits. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (1976).

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster