Quotes about Purpose

No use denying it. God was up to something.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

To live without duties is obscene.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).