Quotes about Meaning

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.