Quotes about Meaning

Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer.

One doesn't cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute eternity to earthly things. One leaves to death the limited right that it still has. But one expects the new human being and the new world only frombeyond death, from the power that has conquered death.

Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

This poem is not addressed to you.]" This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.