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As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.
— Andy Stanley
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.
— Helen Mirren
It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.
— Philip Roth
We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression.
— Hillary Clinton
The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness.
— Debasish Mridha
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
— Eliot Porter
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
— Ann Patchett
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
— Frank Herbert
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
— Anonymous
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
— Alan Perlis
I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.
— Luis J. Rodriguez
You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
— Richard Rohr
Any denial of the facts is a denial of the truth. Holocaust deniers cling to Any revisionism for political purposes.
— A.E. Samaan
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
— Amber Valletta
Love is the litmus test of whether we are really disciples becoming like Jesus or merely religious moralists using Jesus for our own purposes.
— Jim Mindling
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
— Saul Steinberg
The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
— Meister Eckhart
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
— Fernando Pessoa
There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.
— Alistair Begg
There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.
— Sarah Brady
Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.
— John Piper
Use the new technologies for the old purposes.
— Leon Wieseltier
One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.
— Stormie O'martian
For official purposes, these children do not exist.
— Robert Muchamore
We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.
— Billy Graham
One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.
— Ufuoma Apoki
The "word of the Lord" is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.
— Priscilla Shirer
Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you.
— Allen Parker
There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.
— Epictetus
For all intents and purposes, I am a woman
— Bruce Jenner
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— Paul Dix
Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.
— Dan Pearce
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
— Stanislaw Lem
Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.
— Bryan Chapell
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
— Maimonides
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
— Marilynne Robinson
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
— William H. Seward
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
— John Dewey
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
— C.S. Lewis
[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
— Elizabeth George
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
— Salmon P. Chase
I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes ... are maps ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail
— Adrienne Rich
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
— George Leonard
The key to Christian success is adherence and obedience to him, his Word, and his purposes for life.
— Jack Coleman
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
— Sarah Fielding
Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God's plan and purposes for your life.
— Elizabeth George
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
— Garry Kasparov
Third, only two persons of the opposite sex can fulfill the procreative purposes of marriage.
— Kevin DeYoung
In God's hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes.
— Elizabeth George
Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
— Lesslie Newbigin
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
— Andrew Bernstein
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
— Philip Massinger
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
— Mariella Frostrup
I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.
— Charles Clarke
We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.
— John C. Maxwell
I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.
— Mark Fuhrman
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.
— Louie Giglio
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
— J. William Fulbright
What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
— Thomas Goodwin
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
— Robert Breault
To accomplish your goals and purposes in life you must be constantly refreshed by Him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
— Kate Smith
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
— E. Stanley Jones
She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.
— Aya Ling
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
— Vitruvius
Don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope
— Orson Scott Card
My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.
— Nicole Holofcener
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
— Bernard-Henri Levy
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
— Arthur Helps
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
— Shirley Manson
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
— Elizabeth Dole
Nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
— G.K. Chesterton
Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.
— Ronald A. Heifetz
Exploitations for other purposes happens only when we are living outside the design of the creator's intention
— Sunday Adelaja
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
— Charles Kingsley
To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,
— James Davison Hunter
Humans finding themselves called to play a vital role in the larger purposes of the creator for the creation.
— N. T. Wright
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
— James Russell Lowell
Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep
— Giulio Tononi
I can't think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.
— Daniel Willey
I have a severe case of invisibility-plus-impulsive-behavior that I am calling, for the purposes of this memoir, Xamnesia. It
— Lizzie Harwood
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
— Alan Watts
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. ... Nature does not act by purposes.
— Erwin Schrodinger
I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.
— James E. Faust
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
— Aristotle.