Quotes About Meaning

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

As I have argued in Chapter 1, to confuse the anti-colonialism of the 1950s and 1960s with the post-colonialism of the last decade of the twentieth century is to depoliticize Fanon to a disastrous extent. After all, no one is going to take to the streets in the name of post-colonalism. And no one is going to die for it.

Words his soul danced to.

That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

It's only words... unless they're true.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

God is either everything, or He is nothing.