Quotes about Meaning

Religion as a word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage; where he senses meanings no less overwhelming because they can be only hinted at in myth and ritual; where he glimpses a destination that he can never know fully until he reaches it.

Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.

If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little kinks.

The lover of God never knows the words "too much." Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Sacrifice without love is pain. Pain with love is sacrifice. Pain without love is misery. Love without pain is heaven. Love with pain is purgatory. Pain without love is hell.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.

Love is never compelled, except in hell. There, love has to submit to justice.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.