1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

We must all have a purpose," he said. "I go to find mine.

And nothing is more wrong-headed than calling meaning a mental activity! Unless, that is, one is setting out to produce confusion. (It would also be possible to speak of an activity of butter when it rises in price, and if no problems are produced by this it is harmless.)

This brings us to one of the deepest truths in all scripture: It is not about you; it is all about him. This truth will set you free. About the eternal God, God the Son, Jesus Christ – Colossians 1:16 tells us that, ‘all things were made by him and for him’, and that includes you and me. You and I exist for our Lord Jesus, to live for him, and he enables us to do that by being our shepherd.

Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.

It is in community where we find our very selves.

We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

To understand the universe at the deepest level, we need to know not only how the universe behaves, but why.Why is there something rather than nothing?Why do we exist?Why this particular set of laws and not some other?”“This is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. We shall attempt to answer it in this book. Unlike the answer given in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, ours won’t be simply “42.