Quotes About Meaning

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.