Quotes about Meaning
Physical pain is God's trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong in the world.
— John Piper
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
— John Piper
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.
— John Piper
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
Is it sinless? It is not worth while tocontend for a term It is "salvation from sin.
— John Wesley
Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life.
— Ellen White
I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.
— Ellen White
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
— Emil Brunner
I suspect that God's plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit; and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we're dealt.
— Barack Obama
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor