Quotes about Meaning

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.

Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

Being a worshiper means that you attach your identity, your meaning and purpose, and your inner sense of well-being to something. You either get these things vertically (from the Creator) or you look to get them horizontally (from the creation). This insight has everything to do with how a marriage becomes what it is. No marriage will be unaffected when the people in the marriage are seeking to get from the creation what they were only ever meant to get from the Creator.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must not be just an aspect of your theology. It must not be relegated to the "religious" dimension of your life. Your relationship with God through Jesus Christ is your life. It touches and alters every aspect of your existence; it redefines your identity. It infuses your life with new meaning and purpose, and it completely reshapes your destiny.

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

All of God's rules are an outgrowth, an expression of, or an application of the thing for which we were made—relationship with him.

from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.

It is tempting to forget that there is an eternity or to think that it doesn't make any difference in the present. Paul says just the opposite to the Corinthians; that if you only have Christ in this life, you are a person to be pitied. Eternity is the only thing that can give you a reason to continue.