Quotes about Significance

If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets in the rainstorms as though to say, Enjoy your place in My story, the very beauty of it means it's not about you, and in time that will give you comfort.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

Misery, though seemingly ridiculous, indicates life itself has the potential of meaning, and therefore pain itself must also have meaning.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression.

There is an abundant need in this world for your exact brand of beautiful.

Understand that no time showing up and bringing compassion to another human is ever a waste of time. Rather, it's our chance to bring context, purpose, and meaning to all of life. Quiet moments of compassion are epic moments of battle.

remember that there is an abundant need in this world for your contributions to the kingdom . . . your thoughts and words and artistic expressions . . . your exact brand of beautiful.

when someone of great significance in our lives makes us feel like our belonging is more of a question mark than a security blanket, we become very sensitive to even the slightest hints of rejection.

And yet what we call mundane is, in some very important ways, significant in God's school of preparation.