Divine Significance Quotes

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

...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.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.