Purpose Quotes - Page 12

Identify the sequence of stages that leads to turning your dreams into reality

Spreading the Word of Christ and the Kingdom should be our goal as believers

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” engage in self-development, self-education and development of will and firmness

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

Everything you are called to do has already been prepared for you by God, He just needs your obedience

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely."Everything must have a purpose?" asked God."Certainly," said man."Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.And He went away.

Of course, the self-righteous demand and expectation for love, and exactly how it should be expressed, is not the most streamlined method for producing it in another for you. That is, it does not compel or create the love itself. You’re neither loving nor producing that which would compel the love toward you. You’re compressed between them both and incapable of accepting either. And rightly so. Which then accelerates the accumulating suffering.

Use your special gifts to fulfil your divine purpose.

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.

You have a great talent and a great role in the world.

You can only reach God through His creation

As far as I can go, I will reach for it.

If you do not evaluate your salvation highly enough, then in time you will backslide

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

A world without music is only filled with sounds in the air

You can’t change the world if you don’t know the principles of God

By bringing the future into the present, you can do something about it usually before it gets too late.

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God’s faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

The most important reason for your “no” is that you need your downtime so you won’t behave like a jerk because you’re depleted. And you don’t want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommitment. But that’s your secret; others don’t need that information. So just smile, say no, thank you, and keep moving.

Never do anything local or insignificant

Celebrate people and love them even at their lowest point

It is possible to get rich only by being diligent

You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God

If you do not work for your dream or purpose, someone else will hire you to fulfill his/hers

Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

The disappearing time is the race of life

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end.

Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.

A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose

Although each of us has the right to believe we are suffering, I suppose, there is a definite and ultimately essential distinction to be made between actual suffering, its cause and resolution, and invented or imagined suffering.

God will ignite all that was extinct in your life

Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.

To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are

Before your mother's conception of you, God knew you; before His ‪consecration of you, He had up set your assignments right! You are not an accident!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Within the 24 hours, make some time for your own work.

As I’ve mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate some of these, but really not by very much. Everyone knows, or at least has the information, about the horrors of ignoring health issues and expecting your body to do what you want it to do with the least investment in it. Another “authority” telling you what you should do is not the answer.

When in brief flashes of serendipity you glimpse what you were born to do... Do it. No matter what. Take steps toward it, even if they are depressingly small at first. With each inch closer to your central magic, you will feel it. It is unmistakable for anything else. It's called purpose.

I liked being needed by him. I liked making his food for him, running his baths for him, massaging his muscles. I liked caring for him, taking care of him. It made me feel like I had a real purpose. It felt so good to make him feel even the littlest bit better.

Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work

When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.

Everything is a product of time because it took a particular period of time to achieve that result

Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts, pictures and visions of what you would call success. Allow your mind to be pregnant with the thought of success and how you want to achieve it. This will enable you not to be shocked by your own success when you finally achieve it, because you would have lived it countless times before.

Work is an instrument through which you build yourself

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Everyone claims to want the truth. If you really want it, I’d suggest investing seriously in humor and this mysterious skill of transforming bad news into good. Otherwise, you’ll only get more frustrated.

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective

The world is shaken by major events, but it is ‘transformed’ by slight subtleties. And while we may be far too small to create even one major event, we are just the right size to craft a thousand subtleties.

When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness

Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God’s greater purpose for mankind.

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

A plan concerns your life and your calling

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.