Quotes about Significance
God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.
— Philip Yancey
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
— Philip Yancey
Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?
— 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
It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant
— Philip Yancey
To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.
— Philip Yancey
The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.
— 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
What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?
— Philip Yancey
The more we focus on tangential issues, the less effective we will be in addressing matters of true moral significance.
— Philip Yancey
Every hour or so she asks how I'm feeling, and I hear her giving reports on the phone to her friends. "He's doing better today. A little trouper, doesn't complain at all." I like hearing her talk about me, as if I matter.
— Philip Yancey
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
— Philip Yancey