Quotes about Meaning
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.
— Shane Claiborne
If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.
— Shane Claiborne
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.
— Shane Claiborne
It's not that the law has no meaning; it's just that grace has the last word.
— Shane Claiborne
Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
— Shane Claiborne
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.
— Shane Claiborne
When you twist the cross, you get a swastika.
— Shane Claiborne
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .
— Shane Claiborne
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
— Shauna Niequist
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
— Oscar Wilde
Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.
— Paulo Coelho
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeds it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson