Quotes About Significance

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

When the Lord looks upon the Church in America today what does He see? Is today's America what the Apostle John saw when the Church of Laodicea was revealed to him.

Photography threatens because photography implies notice and permanent record.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.

He stands in history as the completer of the globe.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future.

The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that no longer offer important work to do. Bells destroy the past and future, rendering every interval the same as any other, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with significance.

Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Showmanship, that's what it was. What kind of a God would need it?

If it's not worth making beautiful," Valiha said, "it's not worth making.

Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

The 20-year rule says that if it won't matter in 20 years, it doesn't matter now.

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

He said slowly, "You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.