Quotes about Meaning

martyrdom is not only not the same as suicide, it is the polar opposite of suicide, since the suicide loves nothing in life enough to keep living, while the martyr loves something so much that he gives up everything for it, even life. The suicide sees less value and meaning in life than anyone else, while the martyr sees more.

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

Lewis said, "Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." He was saying that stories can align reason with imagination and mind with emotion. When truth is put in imaginative form, it can be driven not only into the mind but also into the heart.

Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. (Revelation 22:7)

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such a great meaning.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.