Purposes Quotes

“I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.”
― Daniel Willey

“It takes time, or does time take it?”
― Anthony Liccione

“There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thoughts, Cool words and Clear actions are the impressions that appeal to success.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“The first objection is that it is rubbish to talk about natural meanings and purposes, because we merely imagine such things. According to the objector's way of thinking, meanings and purposes aren't natural—they aren't really in the things themselves—they are merely in the eye of the beholder. But is this true? Take the lungs, for example. When we say that their purpose is to oxygenate the blood, are we just making that up? Of course not. The purpose of oxygenation isn't in the eye of the beholder; it's in the design of the lungs themselves. There is no reason for us to have lungs apart from it. Suppose a young man is more interested in using his lungs to get high by sniffing glue. What would you think of me if I said, “That's interesting—I guess the purpose of my lungs is to oxygenate my blood, but the purpose of his lungs is to get high?” You'd think me a fool, and rightly so. By sniffing glue, he doesn't change the purpose built into his lungs, he only violates it. We can ascertain the purposes of the other features of our design in the same way. The purpose of the eyes is to see, the purpose of the heart is to pump blood, the purpose of the thumb is to oppose the fingers so as to grasp, the purpose of the capacity for anger is to protect endangered goods, and so on. If we can ascertain the meanings and purposes of all those other powers, there is no reason to think that we cannot ascertain the meanings and purposes of the sexual powers. Natural function and personal meaning are not alien to each other. They are connected. In a rightly ordered way of thinking, they turn out to be different angles of vision on the same thing.

The second objection is that it doesn't make any difference even if we can ascertain the meanings or purposes of the sexual powers, because an is does not imply an ought. This dogma too is false. If the purpose of eyes is to see, then eyes that see well are good eyes, and eyes that see poorly are poor ones. Given their purpose, this is what it means for eyes to be good. Moreover, good is to be pursued; the appropriateness of pursuing it is what it means for anything to be good. Therefore, the appropriate thing to do with poor eyes is try to turn them into good ones. If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Neither would the practice of health education. Consider the young glue-sniffer again. How should we advise him? Is the purpose of his lungs irrelevant? Should we say to him, “Sniff all you want, because an is does not imply an ought”? Of course not; we should advise him to kick the habit. We ought to respect the is of our design. Nothing in us should be put into action in a way that flouts its inbuilt meanings and purposes.”
― J. Budziszewski, On the Meaning of Sex

“In God’s hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes.”
― Elizabeth George

“God uses all the problems and challenges of life for divine purposes.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To accomplish your goals and purposes in life you must be constantly refreshed by Him.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Is the Starwife a witch?" asked Firgil. "Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.”
― Robin Jarvis, Whortle's Hope

“Exploitations for other purposes happens only when we are living outside the design of the creator’s intention”
― Sunday Adelaja

“People, who use the wrong methods and play the game of the wisdom above its limits, they face the worst humiliation and severe defeat of their purposes.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Your genius is your superpower. Use its positive energy in your purposes & change the world.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond