Quotes about Meaning

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

The value of a life can only be estimated by its spiritual relationship to God.

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.