Quotes About Meaning

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.