Quotes about Life

much more can the God of all creation accomplish? By his sovereign will, we have come into being with an expressed and designed purpose.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

uses your life to fashion you for his purpose, using all the threads within his reach?

O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer fuller be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee; I lay in dust life's glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.10

There was both unity and diversity in the Trinity, the first cause of all life, and until we find that communion with God, we can have no real unity within ourselves or with our fellow human beings.

Because I live, you shall live also.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers.

Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers. Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

Life is lived out in self-contained compartments with nothing to connect them. Their bowing recognizes the sacred. Their expoiting grants the material. In living they desecrate others without a twinge of conscience. Yet if anyone were to hint at desecrating that shrine, his life sould be in peril. Such is the amputation of religion that pays homage to God but would be the most surprised if God were ever to show up.

His earthly sojourn was not an origination, but a visitation.

suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life.