Quotes about Purpose

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me. And it's the place from which I should live . . . loved.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves....

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.