Quotes about Meaning
When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.
- John Calvin
What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.
- John Calvin
that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.
- John Calvin
If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.
- John Calvin
What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
- Dorothy Day
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.
- Elie Wiesel
The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.
- Francis Chan
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
- George Eliot
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
- Helen Keller
We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?
- John Maxwell
I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.
- Max Lucado
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
- Rick Warren