Quotes about Purpose

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline.

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

Love God, and within the limitations He has sovereignly placed in your life at this time, do what you can.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

You were made to dream and you must dream—both for yourself and for God. God is the Author of your dreams, but you're an outlet for His.