Quotes about Significance

Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

The most marvelous and astonishing thing in nineteen centuries of history is the power of His life over the members of the Christian Church. 50/104 George Bancroft said: I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Do not ever forget, for even a day… how very special you are!

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.

Choose what's important to you, Macy. Not for the moment, but for eternity.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

I want to know that I have affected people for eternity. I believe I am. I believe once someone knows Christ as their personal savior, I've affected eternity. I matter 10 billion years from now.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man