Quotes about Purpose

The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.

As the "no" of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

Everyone else who was ever born into the world, came into it to live; our Lord came into it to die.

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.