Quotes about Meaning
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.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Love is never compelled, except in hell. There, love has to submit to justice.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.
— Washington Irving
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
— Francis de Sales
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
— John Updike
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
— Victor Hugo
Work is therapy for the soul.
— Joseph Wirthlin
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
— Roland Allen
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
— Jennifer Konner