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I remember both of us becoming tearful on that day, not so much because of the insights, but because of the increased sense of reverence we had for each other. We discovered that even seemingly trivial things often have roots in deep emotional experiences. To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing the deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.
- Stephen Covey
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."
- CS Lewis
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
- Aristotle
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
- Samuel Johnson
She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.
- Graham Greene
Nothing is so small or trivial as to escape the attention of God's sovereign control; nothing is so great as to be beyond His power to control it.
- Jerry Bridges
Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.
- Lewis Carroll
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
- Rick Warren
Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them — not success, wealth, fame, or pleasure. Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
- Rick Warren
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
- William James
It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.
- David Jeremiah