Quotes about Significance
I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
— William Carey
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.
— William Lane Craig
Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
— William Lane Craig
there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.
— William Lane Craig
I pray that we might not outlive our usefulness.
— David Brainerd
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.
— David Jeremiah
You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.
— Bill Hybels
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
— JI Packer
We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.
— Max Lucado
If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.
— George Verwer
While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
— David Platt