Quotes about Meaning

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Are you unhappy? Do you feel lost and lacking in purpose? Focus on the needs of others and serve as Jesus did.

When the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are. Our own lack of truth then becomes a stumbling block to sharing the knowledge, vision, and passions behind whatever it is we do and whoever it is we are. We cannot give away what we do not own, and that's why we need to have our own "faith stories" to pass on. As

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.

Respect for everyone he met. The preference of service over power. The rejection of violence. Israel—its Law and worship—as the primal source of meaning.

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed by them.

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.