Purpose & the Path

“How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.”

“Hampered by indolence of the spirit, this expression is not perceived intuitively enough to be properly grasped.”

“And when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."”

“If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.”

“Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”

“The road which in any case you must follow one day will only be lengthened thereby.”

“Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.”

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.”

“Where man's knowledge cannot take him any further he must come to a spiritual standstill.”

“The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the by-ways.”

“There are many plans in a man's heart, but the LORD's counsel will prevail.”

“Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.”

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

“After all, no one can walk and go forward along a road containing great yawning clefts.”

“Walk yourself in the ways of righteousness, and teach others also to do so.”

“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”

“The spirit does not stand in the world of matter without a purpose, and therefore a healthy body will give it the best help wholly to fulfil the purpose of developing itself and simultaneously furthering Creation.”

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you.”

“For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”

“The disciple will overcome the earth, and the world of Yama, and the world of the gods. The disciple will find out the plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right) flower.”

“Listen, you who seriously aspire to Light and to Truth: Each individual must inwardly experience the way to the Light, he must discover it himself if he wishes to be sure of the way.”

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.”

“A man's steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.”

“You must absorb every Message from God quite naturally and interweave it in a practical manner into your work, your thoughts and your whole life!”

“Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.”

“I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.”

“Strive for the ability to enter the spiritual realm as fully matured spirits, you earthmen!”

“Better than sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all worlds, is the reward of the first step in holiness.”

“Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised?”

“A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?”

“The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go."”

“The man who has toiled over things which can offer no basis for his necessary ascent has wasted his time and his strength.”

“LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.”

“Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

“A life full of work but without any spiritual aim, for instance, is of no avail!”

“He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.”

“This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.”

“The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.”

“Life on earth must be really experienced if it is to have any purpose!”

“But seek first God's Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”

“And in wisdom he is the more unforeseeing, who does not provide for the spiritual existence, and attends to the worldly one.”

“However, a man can only experience seriously what at any particular time he regards as his real life's task.”

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me."”

“This is the way, there is no other that leads to the purifying of intelligence. Go on this way! Everything else is the deceit of Mara (the tempter).”

“But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.”

“One goal must henceforth dominate every man – to recognise and also to fulfil the place he, as a human being, must occupy in Creation!”

“Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao.”

“Who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.”

“I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.”

“It is man’s duty on earth to set himself the highest attainable goal, and to strive for this goal with all the powers at his disposal.”

“Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.”

“If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.”

“And the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don't fail.”

“Every Sabbath Day will thus become a milestone on your way, which will also retroactively give the days of your gross material activity that value which these should have for the maturing of your soul.”

“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”