Quotes About Significance

This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

How symbolic the smallest things can be, the flotsam and jetsam of lives

And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.

Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of status, the colour of wallpaper, the size of an office or the matter of a dedicated car parking space - was treated with the greatest significance, and everything that did matter - pleasure, joy, friendship, loved - was deemed somehow peripheral.

He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they're substantial, that they're not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.

I doubt whether there would be many readers for a post-holocaust novel that was concerned with the hero's desperate search for a mite. But alas for the world if the mites and their diminutive allies failed to prosper!

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Does it make any difference at all if it happened anywhere else? it happened here. that's everything, right?

No matter what you do with the rest of your life, nothing will be as important to the future of the World as your work on this Project right now.

I presume, everyone feels who has done something that he knows will have very far-reaching consequences which he cannot foresee.

Men like to recall, in later years, what they said at some important or possibly historic moment in their lives. . . . I remember only too well what I said to General Somervell that day. I said, "Oh." As

Unless we find the communal meaning and significance of the suffering of all life and ecosystems on our planet, we will continue to retreat into our individual, small worlds in our quest for personal safety and sanity. Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that.

The deep and abiding significance of Saul's encounter is that he hears Jesus speak as if there's a moral equivalence between Jesus and the people Saul is persecuting.

Maybe, like children, we assume ourselves to be of central importance, and we're not. Maybe the inequities that consume us here on earth aren't really the issue.

There are no small lives, there are no small stories, there are no small people.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

Names have power.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for. -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)