Top 77 Serves A Purpose Quotes
#1. You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.
Randy Alcorn
#2. I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Brendan Fraser
#3. I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan.
Karen Ehman
#4. Take one day at a time and be aware that every moment and interaction serves a purpose. We are here to learn, love, and share.
Jonathan Kuiper
#5. Well, sure, maybe religion serves a purpose, but maybe religion's role is not to give us the answers, but to give us the questions, not to resolve the mystery of life, but to increase our wonder at the things we don't know.
Anna Hammond
#7. Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults and failures, you would become paralyzed by fear and doubt.
David McRaney
#8. I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
Eleanor Mondale
#10. Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.
Steve Maraboli
#11. My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless ... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.
Kathe Kollwitz
#12. The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.
Andy Paula
#13. African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def
#14. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca Solnit
#15. Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#16. The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.
Diane Ladd
#17. Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.
Chris Matakas
#18. You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.
Lisa Cach
#19. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley
#20. In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.
T. B. Joshua
#21. Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#22. A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.
Osbert Sitwell
#23. To a man whose confidence is in his own strength, the gospel will be foolishness. But God shows his children things when it is imperative - when it is important for us and when it serves his purpose.
Jose Henriquez
#24. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
Henry Jenner
#25. An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature.
Viktor E. Frankl
#26. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#27. The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.
Craig Finn
#28. From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.
Caroline Myss
#29. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
#30. The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
Maimonides
#31. No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#32. Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.
Arnold Palmer
#33. A punishment is not self-explanatory. It serves no purpose until the person serving it knows the real reason for being punished.
Amit Pandey
#34. THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
Morihei Ueshiba
#36. Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
Larry Wall
#37. I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
Chet Faker
#38. Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else they are useless, a fact must find its place in an argument or else it serves no true purpose.
Tom King
#39. It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.
Charlie Kaufman
#40. Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
Guy Finley
#41. Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#42. When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.
Nancy Pearcey
#43. By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.
Spencer Abraham
#44. I've never heard a man's cock described as a fang before ... "
"Fang, cock ... It's all sexual to a vampire."
"But not to an angel. My cock serves a highly specific purpose.
Nalini Singh
#45. The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else's children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
Aberjhani
#46. Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.
Andrea Riseborough
#47. Without a future, the present serves no purpose,
Jose Saramago
#48. WORRY serves no useful purpose is of no value and doesn't change a thing.
Debbie Macomber
#49. Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
Timo Tjahjanto
#50. Literature, for example, serves a pragmatic purpose. Like any form of Art, literature's mission is to make the fulfillment of our essential duties more bearable.
Muriel Barbery
#51. I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
Mark Strand
#52. The only purpose a Council serves is to make you all feel important.
Bernard Cornwell
#53. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.
Billy Graham
#54. Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.
Iyanla Vanzant
#55. It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
M.L. Stedman
#56. We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.
Cristen Rodgers
#57. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#58. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
Phil Klay
#60. A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil
#61. They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
Albert Camus
#62. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence
Donal Ryan
#63. The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.
Gilbert Highet
#64. I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.
Mamie Till
#65. If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. The goal of your first marathon is to finish. You have no time goal. You're not endeavoring to win or place in your age category. Being a speed demon serves no purpose other than to court injury. Your only competition is you.
Gina Greenlee
#67. TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life's mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be.
Molly Friedenfeld
#68. Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
Paulo Coelho
#69. It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
Peter Greenaway
#70. Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter
#72. I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
Jack Kirby
#73. All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.
Jim Butcher
#74. But even the worst earthly pain and heartache doesn't last into the heavenly realm. And it all serves a higher purpose.
Wendy Higgins
#76. Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.
Brendan Brazier
#77. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
