Quotes about Meaning

shouting from the rooftops tells us that many people sitting in church on Sunday don't know why they're there or what's taking place. They've received the sacraments, but they've never encountered Jesus Christ in a meaningful and personal way.

The Bible is not merely informative, the Holy Father went on to say, but "performative." It leads us to an action: the Eucharist, which Jesus meant to be transformative.

With respect to ceremonies, there is some appearance of a change having taken place; but it was only the use of them that was abolished, for their meaning was more fully confirmed. The coming of Christ has taken nothing away even from ceremonies, but, on the contrary, confirms them by exhibiting the truth of shadow.

For when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.

Greeks receives the name of ethelobreskeia -- the term which Paul here makes use of. He has,   however, an eye to the etymology of the term, for ethelobreskeia literally denotes a voluntary service, which men choose for themselves at their own option, without authority from God.

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.

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.

that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

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.