Quotes about Purpose

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me. And it's the place from which I should live . . . loved.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.