Quotes about Significance

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.

We make a big deal out of Christmas; we should make an even bigger deal out of March 25. The greatest event in history, the Incarnation, happened at the Annunciation, not the Nativity.

"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

What I have to say is of no importance. Let me tell you what the Son of God had to say.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?