Quotes About Significance

How ably you can explain a text is an excellent cue for judging comprehension, because you must recall the salient points from memory, put them into your own words, and explain why they are significant—how they relate to the larger subject.

Creo que eso es lo que me asusta: el carácter azaroso de todo. Que las personas que podrían ser importantes para ti pasen por tu lado y desaparezcan. O que pases por su lado y las dejes atrás ¿Cómo podrías saberlo?

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

Indeed, the more void the universe may be of meaning, the more precious the lanterns by which man picks his little way through it.

La búsqueda de sentido está condenada al fracaso de antemano porque la vida no tiene "sentido", pero eso no significa que no valga la pena vivirla.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

A story like the exodus story is what happens when, as I said previously, God lets his children tell the story—in ways they understand and that is packed with meaning for them.

Even then one sensed that it must be a rule. That time could not be something that passed all by itself but was something one had to hold one to. And that, when one let go of it, that moment was very significant.

It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

In scripture, names work like mirrors that reflect back the essence of a thing. But more than that, they help CREATE a thing.

Satan loves to name you, because names catch people, control people, and shape people. This world love[s] to name us. We're susceptible to names because [we believe] we're orphaned and widowed--we're so desperate, we believe them. But the one we let name us is our idol...our god our father and groom.

We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.

He liked to believe he mattered.' Grace smiled, thinking privately, we all do.

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

both of these men—the Egyptian kingís cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.

At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.

Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.