Quotes about Meaning
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
— Jerry Falwell
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
— Paul Tillich
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.
— Tony Evans
My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.
— Rick Warren
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
— Paul Tillich
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
— Thomas Jefferson
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
— Stephen Jay Gould
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
— Thomas Merton
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
— John Tillotson
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
— Thomas Merton
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
— Victor Hugo