Quotes about Meaning

For everything that comes is a gift, the meaning always carried out of sight to renew our whereabouts, always a starting place. And every gift is perfect in its beginning, for it is "from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.

For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. Cash

She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Any live man is better than any dead man.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?