Quotes about Purpose

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

In short, the goal of the gospel is not to get you out of hell and into heaven, but to get God out of heaven and into you so that He may be displayed visibly and glorified in His creation.

It is the depravity of institutions and movements that given in the beginning to express life, they often end in throttling that very life. Therefore, they need constant review, perpetual criticism and continuous bringing back to the original purposes and spirit.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

I'm all about winning. I'm not about numbers.