Quotes about Meaning

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint