Quotes about Meaning

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.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

It's not that the law has no meaning; it's just that grace has the last word.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

So I am a radical in the truest sense of the word: an ordinary radical who wants to get at the root of what it means to love, and to get at the root of what has made such a mess of our world.