Quotes about Meaning

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.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

I will say here and now that I have never discovered, nor can I see, any reasonable use or excuse for the " waynee, weedee, weekee " convention. It is not merely that I have a profound sympathy with one of my friends who says he just cannot believe that Caesar was the kind of man to talk in that kind of way. Caesar may, indeed, have done so, but what then ?

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.