Quotes about Purpose
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
- Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
- John Calvin
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
- DH Lawrence
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
- Elbert Hubbard
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.
- Oswald Chambers
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
- AW Tozer