Quotes about Purpose

The key to thankfulness is not to view God through the lens of our circumstances, but to view our circumstances through the lens of God's love and sovereign purpose.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.

It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.

Art isn't meaningless. - It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. - In other words, Dick, you're playing before a grandstand peopled with ghosts. - Give a good show anyhow. - On the contrary, I'd feel, it being a meaningless world, why write? The very attempt to give it purpose is purposeless. Well, even admitting all that, be a decent pragmatist and grant a poor man the instinct to live. Would you want everyone to accept that sophistic rot?

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.