Quotes about Matters
I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.
— Richard Paul Evans
all of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.
— Rob Bell
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
— Joyce Meyer
Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.
— Epictetus
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
— Evelyn Underhill
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
— Ravi Zacharias
For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.
— Ravi Zacharias
But these matters of life and faith cannot be expressed in the tongues of modernity, for it is this very epistemology that has consigned us to death and despair.
— Walter Brueggemann
Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.
— Mark Driscoll
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
— Stanley Hauerwas
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.