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If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.
You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.
I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life purpose of empowering women.
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.