Quotes About Meaning

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

Face-to-face life is all too alive and too formidably rich in meanings. Too intense.As with the sun, we should stay out of it as much as possible.

Love is first of all a lesson in utility.

when the tears of a whole generation are assembled they will only fill a coffee cup just because they evaporate doesn't mean life has heat

you are of me, that's what and that's the meaning of fertility hard and moist and moaning

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass.

You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.

And yet most people would be lost without the idea that life increases in value the more it resembles our own.

Science can't predict what stories my children's great grandchildren will tell. The ultimate story about the experience of our journey into consciousness is a closed book to theologians and scientists alike, but it is not a book without promise. At this point we've barely cracked the introduction, and already smartass scientists and theologians pretend they know not just how the story started but how it ends—and worse—what it means or doesn't mean.

We bestow meaning rather than discover it.

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning? Who someone is and what they do is all that matters.

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning?

Faith is certainly not theology to me. Church is just one of the places I look for answers to the only real question I have: Why do we long for meaning? For

We now send our books, our music and even our memories into a cloud. We may or may not believe in God but we do once again believe in meaningful consciousness residing outside of ourselves.

their official religious absolutes, the higher call was to ignore what the Bible said in favor of what they hoped it meant.

All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin.

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

We cannot use anything intelligently until we know what it is for.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

The unexamined life is not worth living." —Socrates

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?