Quotes about Significance
Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.
- Philip Yancey
God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.
- Philip Yancey
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
- Philip Yancey
Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?
- Philip Yancey
One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.
- Philip Yancey
It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant
- Philip Yancey
To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.
- Philip Yancey
The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.
- Philip Yancey
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
- Philip Yancey
What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?
- Philip Yancey
The more we focus on tangential issues, the less effective we will be in addressing matters of true moral significance.
- Philip Yancey
Every hour or so she asks how I'm feeling, and I hear her giving reports on the phone to her friends. "He's doing better today. A little trouper, doesn't complain at all." I like hearing her talk about me, as if I matter.
- Philip Yancey