Purpose Quotes - Page 29

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Live for Him and live with purpose.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.