Chief End Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly,…
— Ernest Shackleton
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What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
— Dennis Bakke
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
— Oswald Chambers
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Killing time is the chief end of our society.
— Ugo Betti
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Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
— Calvin Coolidge
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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
— John Wesley Young
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Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If…
— William Booth
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the…
— C.S. Lewis
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The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
— J C Ryle
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
— J. Arthur Thomson
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When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who Wrote These Chief End Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Chief End Quotes as follows: