Quotes about Purpose
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
— Leonard Ravenhill
If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
— Leonard Ravenhill
A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
— Leonard Ravenhill
God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME
— Leonard Ravenhill
Authentic evangelism is lifting up the veil of what God is up to and manifesting the image of God in the world we are in.
— Leonard Sweet
To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.
— Leonard Sweet
I have no idea where I am going. . . . But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
— Leonard Sweet
Mark Twain stated, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you realize why you were born.
— Les Brown
Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."
— Les Brown
We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.
— Les Brown