Quotes about Meaning

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Prayer is how we make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.

Christianity doesn't make much sense without the reality of heaven.

The world is full of religions and religious people who don't know God. Religion can serve faith, but it doesn't substitute for faith, and it can never replace faith. Meaningful expressions of the heart, mind, and will become lifeless if they're not mixed with a deep and abiding faith.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But the same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous—why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.