My Purpose Quotes

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

God has a purpose behind every problem.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Every path serves a purpose.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.

The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?