Quotes about Meaning

Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.

She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.

A man's hearted could rub deeper than any gift could reach.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

When is a gift not a gift?

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.