Quotes about Meaning
The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.
— Philip Yancey
we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
— Philip Yancey
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
— Philip Yancey
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day
— Philip Yancey
Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.
— Philip Yancey
One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.
— Philip Yancey
Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.
— Philip Yancey
Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, resorts to deconstruction, not construction.
— Philip Yancey
Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.
— Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
— Philip Yancey
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
— Philip Yancey
by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.
— Philip Yancey