Quotes about Purpose
You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.
— Aldous Huxley
Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
— Aldous Huxley
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
— Aldous Huxley
That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.
— Aldous Huxley
It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.
— Aldous Huxley
And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
— Aldous Huxley
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
— Donald Miller
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
— Donald Miller
Discipline without direction is drudgery.
— Donald Whitney
No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.
— Donald Whitney
But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.
— Donald Whitney
Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.
— Donald Whitney