Quotes about Significance

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.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

People just want to know that they matter.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

To know God's names is to experience His nature, and that level of intimacy is reserved for those who humbly depend on Him. God will not share His glory with another. We must humble ourselves if we really want to know Him. We must realize our insignificance before we can recognize the significance that comes only through Him. We are to hallow His name and His name alone. You can't know His names until you forget your own.

Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.