Quotes about Meaning

I simply find it impossible to believe that the human drama of the centuries, with its quest for meaning and beauty and truth, has no deeper root than molecular mutations.

The End for Which God Created the World

H]ealing displays the works of God in John 9, and sustaining grace displays the works of God in 2 Corinthians 12. What is common in the two cases is the supreme value of the glory of God. The blindness is for the glory of God. The thorn in the flesh is for the glory of God. The healing is for his glory, and the non-healing is for his glory. Suffering can only have ultimate meaning in relation to God.

The great old catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and answers, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." Enjoying God is the way to glorify God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

It's a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That's the meaning of Advent.

Christ is the glory we were made to see. His light alone will fill us and give the light of life and meaning to every part of our lives. And

In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.

Physical pain is God's trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong in the world.

We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.