Purpose Quotes - Page 85

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

If we are ever truly going to find purpose and meaning in our lives, we first have to rise above the trees to rediscover the forest - we have to understand what God is doing in the world and how we fit in.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it. Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later. Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

I believe that prosperity has a purpose.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.

Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.