That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens.
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.
Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.
Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.
Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right. "
The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.
When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton. . . are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.
You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No. 12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
