Quotes About Meaning

Bible translators must use their interpretive skills, remaining constantly sensitive to which nuance of meaning is being communicated by the original Hebrew or Greek word in a particular context so that the proper English word can be chosen to render that meaning.

Another translational problem is that many languages make use of idioms, or figures of speech, that mean something in the original language but not necessarily in the translated language.

Does the fact that Jesus is called the "one Lord" in this verse mean that the Father (Jehovah) is not Lord? (He will say no. Share the above verses with him.)

Bible expositor J. Dwight Pentecost, one of my former professors at Dallas Theological Seminary, said that "the literal method of interpretation is that method that gives to each word the same exact basic meaning it would have in normal, ordinary, customary usage, whether employed in writing, speaking, or thinking. It is called the grammatical-historical method to emphasize the fact that the meaning is to be determined by both grammatical and historical considerations."1

Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book" (Revelation 22:7). So

Writing that is only about a time is not literature, it is history.

The Myth of Measurement For some people, stepping out on the line is worth the risk only if success can be seen, touched, felt, and, most of all, counted. But trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal. Meaning cannot be measured. Yet we live immersed in a world of measurement so pervasive that even many of our religious institutions measure success, significantly, by market share.

Having listened to people facing the end of their days, we have never heard them say, "I wish I had spent more time at the office." Instead, they talk in countless variations about the other joys of life: family, friendships, the many ways in which their lives touched people and how their work meant something to others.

Philosophers used to speculate about what they called the meaning of life. (That is now the job of mystics and comedians.)

He has referred to the Bishop as a Faun crowned with roses," Lady Anne said severely. "I heart it was a Satyr.

Every person has something that concerns her ultimately and whatever it is, that object of ultimate concern is that person's God

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

A dying man alone in his bed once said ; happiness is a pursuit and is real only when shared.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable. Lo expresó muy bien Fernando Pessoa: «La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.» No basta, no. Por eso estoy redactando este libro. Por eso lo estás leyendo.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson

He put his fingertips lightly to either side of her chin, just on her jawline, and looked into her eyes. "Do you really imagine that is my true purpose? Time no longer matters to me all the while I can see you, hear you, and be near you.

This student, in a brilliant flash, had hit upon the "secret of life." He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions—it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).