Quotes About Meaning

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

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Religion provides a feeling that life is ultimately meaningful. It does so by explaining coherently and compellingly what transcends or overshadows everyday life, in ways that other aspects of culture (such as an educational system or a belief in democracy) cannot (Geertz, 1973; Wuthnow, 1988).

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Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.

life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

Everything has a relevance,' remarked Holmes.

In a way, I think I am writing this for Leo. I have decided to keep a record of my life because I suspect my life will be short. I do not particularly want to be remembered. After all, being unknown has been essential to my work. But I sometimes think of him and I would like him to understand what it was that made me what I am.

He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope.

Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.

What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?

Was he pursuing some sort of vendetta? Did he mean to have a second go at finishing him off? And why hadn't he told me? The bastard! Didn't he think I'd find out?

She was the woman who had been left £100,000 in Richard Pryce's will. So she was part of the triangle that included Pryce and Lockwood! That had to mean something.

What do you mean by that?' Hawthorne looked genuinely sympathetic and sounded so interested that even Akira was taken by surprise. That was another of his tricks. He had a way of getting people to tell him perhaps more than they intended

that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.

An exceptional career is one that provides an opportunity to serve. It is a satisfying career in which you can't wait to get up in the morning to begin! You have a sense of purpose and mission. You know why you do what you do. It is a response to a call to serve. Once we do that, everything flows positively.

Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not.

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.