Quotes about Meaning

I tell Ki that I'm learning about words and stories to help our family. He says he's protecting our family with his knife. Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife? She is instant, certain, and solemn, and there is no misunderstanding her meaning. Fight ignorance with words. Fight evil with your knife. Tell you husband, Ki, that he is right.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Prayer is how we make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.

Christianity doesn't make much sense without the reality of heaven.

The world is full of religions and religious people who don't know God. Religion can serve faith, but it doesn't substitute for faith, and it can never replace faith. Meaningful expressions of the heart, mind, and will become lifeless if they're not mixed with a deep and abiding faith.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.