Quotes about Purpose

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.

The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was for relationship with the redeemer, to serve his interests and his purposes in the world.