Quotes about Meaning

The lasting characteristic of a spiritual man is the ability to understand correctly the meaning of the Lord Jesus Christ in his life, and the ability to explain the purposes of God to others. The overruling passion of his life is Jesus Christ. Whenever you see this quality in a person, you get the feeling that he is truly a man after God's own heart

I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here—God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.

To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Quit praying about yourself and be spent for others as the bondslave of Jesus. That is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured-out wine in reality.

The faith of many people begins to falter when apprehensions enter their thinking, and they forget the meaning of God's assurance—they forget to take a deep spiritual breath. The only way to remove the fear from our lives is to listen to God's assurance to us.

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

The value of a life can only be estimated by its spiritual relationship to God.

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.