Quotes about Meaning

The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck.

Financial advisory may offer "A path to a better future" without realizing that could be confused for a gym, a college, a church, or just about anything else.

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something. If you are passionate about something, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

I wondered if when we take Christian theology out of the context of its narrative, when we ignore the poetry in which it is presented, when we turn it into formulas to help us achieve the American dream, we lose its meaning entirely, and the ideas become fodder for the head but have no impact on the way we live our lives or think about God. This is, perhaps, why people are so hostile toward religion.

Story is the greatest weapon we have to combat noise, because it organizes information in such a way that people are compelled to listen.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality.

If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

We think stories are about getting money and security, but the truth is, it all comes down to relationships.

I spent years studying theology and philosophy. They were good years, but I was mistaken to believe that the study of meaning would give me a sense of meaning. Studying love does not cause you to fall in love. Falling in love happens under a certain set of circumstances.

And I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story.