Quotes About Meaning

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

Prayer without heart is a waste to time.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.