Quotes about Meaning

To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.

The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world.

Blessed are those who are alone in the strength of the community. Blessed are those who preserve community in the strength of solitude. But the strength of solitude and the strength of community is the strength of the Word of God alone, which is meant for the individual in the community.