Quotes about Meaning

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

Was there anything so real as words?

My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

How do you fan the fires of faith in your message? By exploring all phases of your subject, grasping its deeper meanings, and asking yourself how your talk will help the audience to be better people for having listened to you.

Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.

Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action.

The world that contains the possibility of evil is the one that also contains the greatest possibility of good. And the question of why God allows evil to happen has to be put against the question of what a world where evil could not happen would be like. It's by working on those questions that people can come to some resolution in their minds about the reality of evil and what it means.

They spend their whole earthly existence trying to save, enhance, and enrich their lives. And what happens? They lose the most important things in their life: an intimate relationship with God and with others.