Quotes about Meaning

When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

Sister Marguerite wasn't her sister, but a nun—a teacher or a caretaker. The letters were Iola's prayers, her private thoughts. That's why they'd never been mailed. These letters weren't meant for earth, but for heaven. Not for her biological father, but for God.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words