Quotes about Purpose
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
— Mother Teresa
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
— Khalil Gibran
So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.
— Chuck Smith
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
— Maya Angelou
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
— Joseph Campbell
God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.
— Wayne Grudem
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
— Thomas Merton
God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
— Jerry Bridges
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
— DH Lawrence
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
— John Calvin
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
— Andy Stanley
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
— Paulo Coelho