Quotes About Meaning

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

All religions are true but none are literal.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

Religion is life essential.