Quotes about Meaning

Purpose is to life what the skeleton is to the body. The muscle may have strength, but it needs support and attachment.

Worship that is properly understood and properly given is co-extensive with life… It informs all of life, everything we do and everything we say and think. At its core it is the sense and service of God. Worship brings into confluence all the questions and answers that we have and do not have.

We are alone in a world where everything is nothing and we are part of the divine.

And in our search for morality and happiness outside of God, we have effectively lost all three—God, morality, and happiness.

monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Note that in normal cases of procreation, parents risk bringing a child into a lot of suffering; even the most fortunate of human lives is accompanied by seasons of serious suffering. Even more than that, parents procreate knowing full well that one day the child will suffer death.

pleasure brings no lasting fulfillment.

That purpose is to enjoy the true nature of love and relationship, which are to be found only in Him. All other loves and relationships are meant to be a reflection of that perfect love and relationship.

Even though we did not author creation, we wish to author morality and take the reins of life.

we are called to see the gracious hand of a designing God in our lives.

We hunger for pleasure that goes beyond the physical because ultimately we are spiritual beings.

Life is a search for the spiritual. Whether in the throes of pain or in the disappointments of pleasure, we strive for an essence that is beyond the physical.