Quotes about Purpose

God's "wrath only goes forth because God is Love, and because sin is that which injures His children and is opposed to the purpose of His love.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.