Quotes about Meaning

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.

Most churchless people aren't looking for a church. They're seeking an encounter with God. And even if they're not seeking him directly, the vast majority are seeking to experience the essence of who he is: love.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

But do you know what I'm most grateful for? Love. That has marked me more than anything else. I was incredibly lucky to have Roser. She'll always be the love of my life. Thanks to her I have Marcel. Being a father has also been essential for me; it's allowed me to keep faith in what's best in the human condition.

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.