Quotes about Meaning

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.

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.