Quotes about Purpose

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

The spiritual life is neither an art nor a science. To arrive at union with God all one needs is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, do nothing but for His sake, and to love Him only.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own.

The most excellent method he had found of going to God was to do our normal activities without any view of pleasing men, and (as far as we are able) purely for the love of God.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. 25