Quotes about Meaning

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.