Quotes About Significance

How often were you aware, while it happened, that you were living an hour that would change the course of your life forever?

Kairos moment. An' it means," and from somewhere in his soused brain he dredged up words of surprising clarity, "the telling moment. The special moment. The supreme moment.

Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…

And he was her very first and it was obvious, you know . . . he knew what he was doing, so it was all that much more important to her. Mad in love, she was. Mad .

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

we justify all the time, effort, suffering, and years and years that we devote to something by telling ourselves and others that there must be something worthwhile and important about it or we never would have so much of our lives sunk into it.

Be careful not to spend your life laboring in secondary causes.

Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. – Matthew 10:31

This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.

Here it is important to note that a basic rule in the interpretation of historical evidence is that any piece of evidence depends upon the context from which it is taken.

Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers and directors have done irreparable damage to the God-ordained image of what may be one of the most significant roles and offices in eternity - that of a father, that of a real man.

While he affirms the dignity and significance of human personhood he understands that apart from God man is simply a biological machine, an accident of nature, a cipher.

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ.

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

December 7, 1988,

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime.

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.