Quotes about Purpose

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.

Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?

The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive; then everything we do, however little and insignificant, bears a rich harvest. After all, what God takes into account is not so much the thing we do, as the love that went to the doing of it.

How many perish through empty learning in this world, who care little for serving God.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.