Quotes about Meaning
For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.
— Athanasius of Alexandria
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
— Mortimer Adler
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
— Alfred Edersheim
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
— Eugene Peterson
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
— CS Lewis
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
— Vance Havner
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God never does anything accidentally.
— Rick Warren
The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
— Steven Furtick
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
— Paul Tillich
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky