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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

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.

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

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.

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

God has put people in your life on purpose, Don't live to get, live to give.

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

God is so good. Always follow your dreams, own your Purpose! Embrace God's Anointing

God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.

God never wastes pain.  He always uses it to accomplish his purpose.  And his purpose is for his glory and our good.  Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom.

God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.