Quotes about Purpose
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
— Adoniram Judson
I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'
— Mike Pence
Money has to serve, not to rule.
— Pope Francis
What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.
— Clayton M. Christensen
I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.
— Sofia Kenin
God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
— Jonathan Edwards
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
— Jonathan Edwards
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
— Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
— Jonathan Edwards
God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!
— Joni Eareckson Tada
God's hands stay on the wheel of your life from start to finish so that everything follows his intention for your life. This means your trials have more meaning—much more—than you realize.
— Joni Eareckson Tada