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  • It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.

    Jesus   Atheism   Purpose  
  • You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you.

    "Finding Joy in Life". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 1996.
  • You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you. . . some blessings will be delivered in this life; others will come beyond the veil. The Lord is intent on your personal growth and development. That progress is accelerated when you willingly allow Him to lead you through every growth experience you encounter, whether initially it be to your individual liking or not.

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

    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.142, New World Library
  • We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of this land and life for His divine purpose. We have never made treaties with any foreign nation, including the United States, but for many centuries we have honored this Sacred Agreement. Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in a natural way.

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

  • There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

    Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.68, Penguin
  • Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

    Hands   Forever   Purpose  
    Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.185, Ignatius Press
  • My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

    Harry Emerson Fosdick “Miscellaneous Sermons”
  • We are here for the sake of others

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press
  • Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

    Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.499, Routledge
  • The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?

  • If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.155, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.

    Joy   Growth   Purpose  
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013
  • If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

    Sweet   Stars   Adversity  
  • The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.

    Dna   Faces   Principles  
  • God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

    Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.53, Penguin
  • Strange is our situation here upon earth.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.226, Princeton University Press
  • Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

    Speech in the State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.
  • There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

  • There is unusual power in united prayer. God has planned for His people to join together in prayer, not only for Christian fellowship, spiritual nurture, and growth, but also for accomplishing His divine purposes and reaching His chosen goals.

    Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.123, Zondervan
  • Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.

  • Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

    Heart   Mind   Purpose  
    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 26, 2012
  • ...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

  • In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

    David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee
  • I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.

  • In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

    Wisdom   Order   Evil  
    Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.55, Shambhala Publications
  • Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press
  • What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

    Numbers   Evil   Would Be  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.256, Reprint Services Corporation
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