Quotes about Meaning
For me, preaching is not teaching. It is not about something I know well enough to pass on, but a means of suggesting and pointing to possibilities I have discovered in a text as it interacts with life itself.
— Kathleen Norris
There is a purpose in everything that God allows. Second
— Kay Arthur
One of the most important principles of handling the Word properly and studying the Bible inductively is to interpret Scripture in the light of its context. Why? Because context always rules in interpretation.
— Kay Arthur
Interpretation is not necessarily a separate step from observation, for often, as you carefully observe the text, at that very moment you begin to see what it means. Thus, interpretation flows out of observation.
— Kay Arthur
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
— CS Lewis
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
— CS Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— CS Lewis
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
— CS Lewis
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
— CS Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
— CS Lewis