Quotes about Life

Reverence for Life," he wrote. Ethics, Schweitzer decided, was nothing more than that. "Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.

Human beings can build airplanes, but they can't build a human being like you.

If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth?

How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.

I have traveled the world. I have searched high and low. I have found nothing that satisfied my mind, my heart, and the deepest longings of my soul like Jesus does. He is not only the way the truth and the life; He is personal to me. He is my way, and my truth, and my life--just as He can be for anyone who reaches out to Him.

One writer referred to the problem of pain as "the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

disciples are not copiers of Christ but continuing incarnations of Jesus' life and love.

Preaching is the primary means whereby the miracle of Cana continues, as Jesus turns our life from water — tasteless, colorless, odorless — into homemade vintage wine, known for its vibrant flavor, vivid sparkle, and alluring aroma.

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.