1,900 Quotes About Meaning

What was the meaning of my life? Why had so many joys and sorrows passed over me? Why had I thirsted for the true and beautiful and why was my thirst still unquenched?... And why had God placed the burning need to be loved in my heart when in fact he had destined me to live the life of a recluse whom no one loved?

Either there is a meaning to the time we spend alive on this physical plane or the only meaning in this universe of stuff and energy is the meaning we create for ourselves.

There is a word that comes to us from the Middle Low German thatmeans to be tongue-tied. Not so much that one cannot think what to saybut that the experience is so beyond words and the conditions defined bywords and their reasoned order that the tongue is tied by expressingsilence. It is mumchance. It is the experience one has confrontingsomething beyond meaning.

Sin isnʼt only doing bad things; it’s more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever we build our life on will drive us and enslave us. Sin is primarily idolatry

A wise old man was asked what he learned about the meaning of life. 'Well,' he answered, 'I have learned that I am here on earth in order to help other people. What I still haven't figured out is why the other people are here.

If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there’s no limit on how many things they can mean!

No matter. All things end, in perversion and death. Sorrow belongs to those who also hope. But that Unfettered One gave his life so that you and your message and your ring might reach the Lords. This we will accomplish, so that such sacrifices may have meaning.

Because, without it, the silver will not stand.

Sometimes there are moments colored in shades that glimmer like soft silver light Like a poem, they bid us on. Their direction unknown, but clear Sometimes the color is only dirty gray, ugly, coarse, unrefined But it propels us forward,Because, without it, the silver will not stand.