Quotes About Meaning

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen.

When the credits roll, we wonder what we did with our lives, and what was the meaning.

He wasn't just calling them into a life of sacrifice. He was calling them into a life of meaning, even the kind of meaning that would involve suffering. Suffering for a redemptive reason is hardly suffering, after all.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck

Question 1: What Do You Offer?

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something. If you are passionate about something, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe.

Story is similar to music. A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

If it was a good movie, the experience felt like somebody was resetting a compass in my brain so I could feel what was important in life and what wasn't.

But it's a good trade, because as soon as you point toward a horizon, life no longer feels meaningless.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

I wondered if when we take Christian theology out of the context of its narrative, when we ignore the poetry in which it is presented, when we turn it into formulas to help us achieve the American dream, we lose its meaning entirely, and the ideas become fodder for the head but have no impact on the way we live our lives or think about God. This is, perhaps, why people are so hostile toward religion.

Story is the greatest weapon we have to combat noise, because it organizes information in such a way that people are compelled to listen.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

Y una vez que sabes lo que se requiere para que la historia de tu vida sea mejor, no tienes opción. Rehusarte a vivir una mejor historia sería como decidirte a morir, a deambular por la vida adormecido hasta que te mueras, y no es natural que uno quiera morirse.

1.  Create a One-liner.

You can't go on without a story any longer than you can read a book about nothing.

What do you offer? 2.?How will it make my life better? 3.?What do I need to do to buy it?

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality

If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful. The