Quotes about Purpose
The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
— Billy Graham
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
— Catherine of Siena
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
— CS Lewis
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
— Vance Havner
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
— John Eldredge
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
— Alan Redpath
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
— Mark Twain
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
— David Jeremiah
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
— G Campbell Morgan
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
— John Henry Jowett
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson