131 quotes found
“Your purpose is the only thing you should make your obsession.”
“Do you think God has a different purpose for every person,' Gisela asked, 'or is his purpose the same for everyone?'...'God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is h...”
“But whatever it is, if it doesn't give you strength from rendering its service it's not your purpose.”
“You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.”
“Purposefulness is a must”
“The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldnt she unmake it again?”
“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”
“Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".”
“Beloved,if you refuse to go within...you will, sadly, go without.”
“I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly unti...”
“To move from here to there, sometimes there is a need to suspend the present realities; they can be a distraction.”
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“for a purpose without reason”
“It seemed so natural, receiving it, watching others receive it, assuming that the approval of others determined our worth. Then one day we found we couldn't feel any worth without it. We'd forgotte...”
“If we are to follow the Jesus who suffered with us and bled for us, we too must suffer. We must hold the dying in our arms. We must shed tears for hungry stomachs, trafficked children, and wanderin...”
“Suffering has a noble purpose.”
“To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.”
“The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.”
“He had chosen to spend his days in the world of men. Life was what mattered, its slow, priceless pulse, its burning fragility; his debt lay with those importunate Flanders echoes that had never rea...”
“Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.”
