Quotes about Purpose

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

As it happens, the differences are clear between the major answers to the search for purpose in life, and they lead in entirely different directions.

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

the truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.