I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own judgment; for sometimes when someone wishes to carry out his own purpose, he will regard any favorable word I may speak as special light from the Lord
The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.
It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
The purpose of art is to stop time.
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
Use the new technologies for the old purposes.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.
. . . [D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.