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Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.
The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
I'm glad that I walked into my purpose. I'm glad that I walked into something that was a smooth transition from football.
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.
There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.
A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.