Purposes Quotes

776 Purposes quotes by 622 unique authors

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall… — Arthur W. Pink
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish,… — Dwight L. Moody
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God… — Unknown Author
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. — Andrew Jackson
We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the… — C.S. Lewis
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can… — John Dewey
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets… — William James
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. — Henry Taylor
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination. — William Arthur Ward
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this… — Immanuel Kant
That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly… — Mahatma Gandhi
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally… — Louis D. Brandeis
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than… — Joseph Hall
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. — Pablo Casals
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not… — George Washington
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with… — Henry Ward Beecher
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in… — George W. Bush
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain… — George Washington
There are some who believe that because they have made mistakes, they can no longer fully partake of the blessings of the gospel. How little… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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