Quotes about Purpose
We can depend upon it that people will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus unless they really know why they are to come and what their need is.
— JC Ryle
A holy person will seek to be faithful in all the duties and relations in life. He will not merely try to do as well as others who take no thought for their souls, but he will try to do even better, because he has higher motives and more help than they.
— JC Ryle
Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.
— JC Ryle
We cannot do better than follow His plan.
— JC Ryle
The old man woke up at once. "Ay, ay!" cried Whitefield, fixing his eyes on him, "I have waked you up, have I? I meant to do it. I am not come here to preach to stocks and stones: I have come to you in the name of the Lord God of Hosts, and I must, and will, have an audience.
— JC Ryle
The most miserable creature on earth is the man who has nothing to do. Work for the hands or work for the mind is absolutely essential to human happiness.
— JC Ryle
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
— JM Coetzee
Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.
— Jack Canfield
If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don't have enough goals.
— Jack Canfield
Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.
— Jack Canfield
Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what.
— Jack Canfield
What is the why behind everything you do?
— Jack Canfield