Quotes About Meaning

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world. 2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Lectures to the Congregation in Barcelona

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

Gehorsam folgt blind, Freiheit hat offene Augen. Gehorsam handelt ohne zu fragen, Freiheit fragt nach dem Sinn. Gehorsam hat gebundene Hände, Freiheit ist schöpferisch.

God's word to me—new every day—in the infinite riches of interpretation.

Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.

Aus einem Brief an die Finkenwalder Brüder Groß-Schlönwitz, 20. Dezember 1937 Gott will nicht tote Christen, sondern Christen, die ihrem Herrn leben. Hören wir dieses Wort nicht, so ist Weihnachten an uns vorübergegangen.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it."

Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso.

When it comes to the question of the mummy's curse, I am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy.

I can best compare my life to a vitaminless diet--plenty of nutritive bulk, but the little something that meant health was lacking. I suppose my trouble was really spiritual scurvy.

every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.

He said he was always looking for a new color. He used to call me the new color. He said he wouldn't wanna see a spaceship without me. He always talked in riddles, but I think I know what he meant, and I don't think anyone can ever say anything that will mean as much to me.

Nightwood is demanding. You can slide into it, because the prose has a narcotic quality, but you can't slide over it. The language is not about conveying information; it is about conveying meaning.

Quando regaliamo una bambola a una bambina, le regaliamo la morte - è l'effige e il sudario; quando una donna la regala a una donna, è la vita che esse non possono avere, è la loro figlia, sacra e profana.»

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Art destroys silence.

Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth [Symphony] was about.

Ima smisla roditi se da bi se doživeo jedan...razgovor.

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