Quotes about Purpose

Freedom is part of the story and half of the truth. Being free is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is being responsible. Freedom may degenerate into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

Our industrialized society is out to satisfy all needs, and our consumer society is even out to create needs in order to satisfy them; but the most human of all human needs—the need to see a meaning in one's life—remains unsatisfied. People may have enough to live by; but more often than not they do not have anything to live for.

before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.

For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

It's so natural to think the Presence of Jesus has no greater purpose than to improve the quality of our journey through life—with quality defined as a pleasurable, satisfying, self-affirming existence—a journey where certain things don't go wrong or, if they do, they correct themselves. Marriages should work, biopsies should come back benign, ministry efforts should succeed, and we should feel pretty good about the way most things go.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.