Quotes about Purpose
A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.
— Thomas a Kempis
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No more does one who is on a journey have to think at every step of his destination.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The Philosopher says (Metaph. ii, 2) that "to suppose a thing to be indefinite is to deny that it is good." But the good is that which has the nature of an end. Therefore it is contrary to the nature of an end to proceed indefinitely. Therefore it is necessary to fix one last end.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Agere sequitur esse.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
— Origen
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
— Rowan Williams
God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
— Max Lucado
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
— Ezra Taft Benson