I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead… — Aminu Kano Copy Share Image
Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose. — William Taylor Copy Share Image
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Purpose is not that far my child--- it's just a journey's walk. It is the One at the end of the journey,… — Quinesia Johnson Copy Share Image
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Purpose is a soft virtue but its what gives you steel in your spine. — Rich Karlgaard Copy Share Image
“The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” “That” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be… — T.I Copy Share Image
“The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.” — Chriscinthia Blount Copy Share Image
But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe,… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It is the process of searching for meaning, not the hypothetical attainment of it, that is important. So long as we spiritually… — Robert L. Schwarz Copy Share Image
Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image