Quotes about Purpose

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.

Plans must be made for men. We cannot think of making men, and binding nature to our designs.

i\in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

God has determined that run-of-the-mill people do most of his work—

Screwtape warns Wormwood] Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's [God's] will, looks around upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.