Quotes about Meaning

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

The courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of 'justification by faith

To overcome our sense of loneliness is a life long pursuit. Let us not despair in its pursuit!

The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.