Quotes about Meaning

Books mean more than people to me anyway.

It is the living significance of the death of Jesus, not the factual details concerning it as a historical event, that matters.

Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

The Christ event derives its meaning from the fact that the three-personed God is directly acting as one throughout the entire sequence from incarnation to ascension to Last Judgment.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.