Quotes about Purpose

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

I realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.