Quotes About Meaning

We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.

He wants us to see what it means to live through the lens of the eternal.

Our souls yearn for a wonder that reaches beyond the dimensions of our finite minds, and if we don't allow a wonder toward God, we'll search for it elsewhere, in false gods. . . .The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder. . .and only God is big enough to do that.

One can go down the line and see that every claim that Jesus made of Himself challenged my culture's most basic assumptions about life and meaning. (It is important to remember, of course, that these basic religions within the Indian framework are also not in concert with each other. Buddha was a Hindu before he rejected some of Hinduism's fundamental doctrines and conceived in their place the Buddhist way. Islam radically differs from Hinduism.) Ironically

Farmecul vieÈ›ii nu const? niciodat? într-un lucru, ci culmineaz?, fundamental, într-o persoan?.

Por otra parte, la pérdida de la alabanza en la adoración desfigura el propósito esencial de la vida.

Morality was never a means of salvation for anyone. The moral threads of a life were intended to reflect and honor the God we serve; they are not a means of entering Heaven.

much more can the God of all creation accomplish? By his sovereign will, we have come into being with an expressed and designed purpose. To

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

As much as that retrospective look troubles us, however, it makes for a fascinating confirmation that without God, the thing never would have happened.

God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

La esterilidad crónica del alma y la incertidumbre ante el futuro se deben claramente al exterminio del espíritu.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Kerosene, he said, because the silence had lengthened, is nothing but perfume to me.

Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.

I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.