Quotes about Purpose
How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?
— Barack Obama
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
— Barack Obama
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter Brueggemann)
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.
— Barbara Kingsolver