Quotes about Purposeful
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
— Joyce Meyer
Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.
— Dallas Willard
He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That's the meaning of Advent.
— John Piper
Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind ,but great actions speak to all mankind.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
— John Maxwell
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.
— Francine Rivers
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
— Henry David Thoreau
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.
— Thomas Merton
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
— Richard Baxter
Marriage is a good thing, and being intentional about your pursuit of it is commendable, not shameful.
— Gary Thomas
Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.
— J. Oswald Sanders