Quotes about Meaning
We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
— Viktor E. Frankl
For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.
— Tim Tebow
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
— George Lucas
The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.
— George W. Bush
As you entrust your concerns to Me, I receive them into My care and keeping. This lightens your load and helps you gain traction so you can move forward in dependence on Me. I don't guarantee you a trouble-free journey, but I do promise to make your life meaningful. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Treasure My teaching in your heart, for it is not your plans but My counsel that will stand.
— Sarah Young
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.
— Scot McKnight
We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things. —ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
— Scot McKnight
The longer you look at the idea that we read the Bible to find new meanings, the sillier it becomes. We read and return to the Bible not (just) to find something new but to hear something old, not to discover something fresh but to be reminded of something ancient.
— Scot McKnight
we need to learn to tell the story that makes sense of Jesus. Not a story that we ask Jesus to fit into.
— Scot McKnight