Higher Purpose Quotes

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Things happen for a reason.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

Love is the higher law.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.