Quotes about Meaning

It is not what you do that impresses God; He is concerned with the why behind what you do. Ask God to reveal your motives to you and to change any that are not pure.

Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason.

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

Words! book-words! what are you?

Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

This likely means the Torah of Deuteronomy, but it is not spelled out. Most spectacularly, there is only one condition spelled out … keep Sabbath!

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.