Quotes about Significance

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

What a privilege we have to tell the world how Christ has come to meet our most critical and foundational needs: identity, acceptance, security and significance.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.