Quotes About Meaning

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.