Quotes About Meaning

I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:

Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORDís feast?

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ëThe stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstoneí?

The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simonís house and approached the gate.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.

Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.