Quotes About Meaning

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

The problem's name is God.

The world is God's language to us.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

Today is important only in light of what we do for God.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

God's presence is all that matters.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.