Quotes about Meaning
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
— Elie Wiesel
We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.
— Erwin McManus
It is Wisdom, Wisdom's self which gleameth through me; severing my cloudiness which yet again mantles over me, fainting from it, through the darkness which for my punishment gathers upon me.
— St. Augustine
The soul, then, lives by God when it lives well, for it cannot live well unless by God working in it what is good; and the body lives by the soul when the soul lives in the body, whether itself be living by God or no. For the wicked man's life in the body is a life not of the soul, but of the body.
— St. Augustine
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
— Teresa of Avila
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
— CS Lewis
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
— CS Lewis
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
— Evelyn Underhill
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
— JRR Tolkien
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
— Gordon Hinckley
I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth
— Deepak Chopra
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
— Carl Sagan