Quotes about Purpose
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.
- AW Tozer
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
- Aldous Huxley
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
- John Piper
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
- John Tillotson
Only He who made man makes man happy.
- St. Augustine
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
- Thomas Merton
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
- Aldous Huxley
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
- Charles Spurgeon