Peace Pilgrim Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Umpires, Judging

• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opportunity, Light, Growth

• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Purpose, Pilgrim

• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Law, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hurt, Simple, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.142, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Pain, Suffering, Trying

• When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Purpose, Problem, Harmony

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.59, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Growth, Doe, Purpose

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.9, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opportunity, Purpose, Problem

• Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blessing, Achievement, Joy

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• 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

  Believe, Government, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.155, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Long, Great Day

• When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people, and I still use it for that purpose today. But the other was as a prayer discipline. To keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace. And after a few years I discovered something. I discovered that I no longer needed the prayer discipline. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument through which only truth can speak.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Prayer, Years, Two

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.33, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

• A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Purpose, Kind, Pilgrim

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.25, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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