Quotes about Goal

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

This illustrates the principle that vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Some hopeless people who anticipate only death cite Scripture that says "I desire to depart and be with Christ" (Phil. 1:23). But Christ is not what hopeless people really want. The God-talk is misleading. The goal of hopelessness is to end the suffering, and if God happens to be there when it happens, fine. But God's presence is not essential.

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

So now we move toward the goal, the very purpose of human life, "another intensity…a deeper communion," as Eliot calls it, that which the container is meant to hold, support, and foster.

If Christ represents the resurrected state, then Jesus represents the crucified/resurrecting path of getting there. If Christ is the source and goal, then Jesus is the path from that source toward the goal of divine unity with all things.

Love is the source and goal, faith is the slow process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to move forward without resolution and closure. And these are indeed, 'the three things that last' (1 Corinthians 13:13). People who have these gifts—faith, hope, and love—are indestructible.