Quotes About Meaning

Anytime we trust an object or activity to give us life and meaning, we worship it.

One stay-at-home mom keeps this sign over her kitchen sink: "Divine tasks performed here, daily." An executive hung this plaque in her office: "My desk is my altar." Both are correct. With God, our work matters as much as our worship. Indeed, work can be worship.

Your goal is not to live long, it's to live.

Where do I go after I die? Is there a God? What do I do with my fears?

Throughout Scripture thorns symbolize, not sin, but the consequence of sin. Remember

And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood runs as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: grace.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

The trouble is, very few people, even in the least provincial communities, seem to understand that the motive for fiction, or the impulse from which it arises, is a serious one. They think of fiction as having no value except that of amusing and passing the time; and so it is impossible for them to understand why it could not just as well be pleasant and pretty.

There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Old, young, male, female - her capacity to be touched, to be involved, to care was, she realized, that still of a young girl. How did one keep growing otherwise? What was life all about otherwise? What separates us from animals except just this - that we can be moved by each other, and not primarily for sexual purposes?

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Since life is our most precious gift And since it is given to us to live but once, Let us so live that we will not regret

Now the days stretch before you with the dryness and sameness of desert dunes. And in this season of grief we who love you have become invisible to you. Our words worry the empty air around you and you can sense no meaning in our speech. Yet, we are here. We are still here. Our hearts ache to support you. We are always loving you. You are not alone.

Your grandmother says you read a lot. Every chance you get. That's good, but not good enough. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Sua avó diz que você lê muito. Em todas as oportunidades que tem. Isso é bom, mas não o suficiente. Palavras significam mais do que é colocado no papel. É preciso a voz humana para dar a elas as nuances do significado mais profundo.

Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.

she'd find a hidden meaning in every pair of pants, then hurry home to be alone and write about romance