Quotes About Significance

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

I am more important than my problems.

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

Words aren't only bombs and bullets—no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

More meaning than was necessary was in the nature of things.

Every mundane detail, quickly forgotten, marks our time on this earth. We're doing nothing. Just living.

I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.

Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.

God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote, "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.

The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?

The more we focus on tangential issues, the less effective we will be in addressing matters of true moral significance.

Learn you to die!" means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.

If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go.