The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Execute their airy purposes.
The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. . . . This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.
Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose.
There is such a thing as perfection. . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. . . . Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?