Quotes about Significance
George Bernard Shaw wrote, "This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- Rick Warren
An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God.
- Rob Bell
Sometimes we don't throw ourselves into it because we believe the small things are beneath us. What we don't understand is that what appear to be the small things are actually the big things. They're where it starts, and throwing yourself into them inevitably creates new opportunities for you.
- Rob Bell
By the way, when the writer John in the book of Revelation gets a current glimpse of the heavens, one detail he mentions about crowns is that people are taking them off [chap. 4]. Apparently, in the unvarnished presence of the divine a lot of things that we consider significant turn out to be, much like wearing a crown, quite absurd.)
- Rob Bell
But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.
- Rick Warren
God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
- Charles Swindoll
It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.
- Matt Chandler
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
- Teresa of Avila
Anyone with a purpose can make a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
- Francis Chan
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
- Khalil Gibran