Quotes about Meaning

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.

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

Sister Marguerite wasn't her sister, but a nun—a teacher or a caretaker. The letters were Iola's prayers, her private thoughts. That's why they'd never been mailed. These letters weren't meant for earth, but for heaven. Not for her biological father, but for God.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.