Quotes About Significance

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

racial melancholia" to refer to histories of racial loss that are condensed into a forfeited object whose significance must be deciphered and unraveled for its social meanings.

If you believe in coincidence, then you aren't paying attention.

That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

There is nothing small in the service of God.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

God has sent no one to this earth purposeless.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.