Quotes about Meaning

Modern man is the Cosmic Orphan because he has killed God. And, by doing so, he has reduced himself to an accident of nature. When he asks, Why? his cry is lost in the silence of the recesses of space. When he dies, he dies without hope. Thus, in killing God, modern man has killed himself as well.

Dostoyevsky said, "All things are permitted." But man cannot live this way. So he makes a leap of faith and affirms values anyway. And when he does so, he reveals the inadequacy of a world without God.

there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.