Quotes about Meaning
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
- William James
You say, the sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.
- Margaret Atwood
Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
- Max Lucado
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
- Rick Warren
If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.
- Rick Warren
Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
- Rob Bell
I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.
- Ronald Reagan
The universe does not make sense without God.
- E Stanley Jones
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
- Elie Wiesel
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."
- Elie Wiesel
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
- JI Packer