Quotes About Meaning

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

When we speak, it must be with the realization that God has given our words significance. He has ordained for them to be important.

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.

Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

No, no vas a entender todo lo que enfrentas, y sí, la voluntad de Dios puede ser confusa en ocasiones, pero tu historia ha sido infundida con significado y propósito porque se ha incluido en la historia de la redención y la restauración de Dios.

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

Being a worshiper means that you attach your identity, your meaning and purpose, and your inner sense of well-being to something. You either get these things vertically (from the Creator) or you look to get them horizontally (from the creation). This insight has everything to do with how a marriage becomes what it is. No marriage will be unaffected when the people in the marriage are seeking to get from the creation what they were only ever meant to get from the Creator.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must not be just an aspect of your theology. It must not be relegated to the "religious" dimension of your life. Your relationship with God through Jesus Christ is your life. It touches and alters every aspect of your existence; it redefines your identity. It infuses your life with new meaning and purpose, and it completely reshapes your destiny.

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The