Quotes about Meaning

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

The soul needs something extra, a place outside matter where it can stand. The Bible—think of it as the primer of a language whereby we can talk to one another about what matters to us most. It is our starting point, not the end point.

Why is the world so elaborate, if it has no purpose? Think of the care that goes into the least little insect and weed around us. You say you love me; then you must love life. Life is a gift, for which we must give something back.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.