Searching for Significance: Exploring the Mystery of Life

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3. “I know everything that science so much wants me to know, but this path will not lead me to an answer to the question of the meaning of my life.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

4. “The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science… to know that what is impenetrable to us really exists… this knowledge, this feeling, is the centre of true religion.” ~ Albert Einstein

5. “The will to meaning is really a specific need not reducible to other needs, and is in greater or smaller degree present in all human beings.” ~ Victor Frankl, The Unheard Cry For Meaning

6. “I say that this search for God was born not of reason but of an emotion because it was a search that arose not from my thought process – indeed, it was in direct opposition to my thinking – but from my heart. It was a feeling of dread, of loneliness, of forlornness in the midst of all that was alien to me; and it was a feeling of hope for someone’s help.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, Confession

7. “You, oh God, have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.” ~ St. Augustine

8. VISITOR: Henry, have you made your peace with God? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: We have never quarrelled.

9. “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

10. “You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself – and how little I deserve it.” ~ W.S. Gilbert

11. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” ~ Albert Einstein

12. “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.” ~ C.S. Lewis

13. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

14. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung “What irritates you about God?” ~ Bruxy Cavey

15. “Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.” ~ David Augsburger

16. “There is no single issue more important for our personal or corporate survival today that this matter of forgiveness.” ~ Bruce Larson

17. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

18. “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde

19. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness.” ~ Peter Ustinov

20. “He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.” ~ Thomas Fuller

21. “People who cover over their sins will not prosper. But if they confess and forsake them, they will receive mercy.” ~ Proverbs 28:13 (NLT)

22. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; everyone who seeks finds; and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” ~ Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 7:7-8 & Luke 11:9-10

23. “Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” ~ Psalm 51:6 (NASB)

24. “When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long…. My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.” ~ Psalm 32:3-4 (NRSV)

25. “People who cover over their sins will not prosper. But if they confess and forsake them, they will receive mercy.” ~ Proverbs 28:13 (NLT)

26. “For no one can ever be made right in God’s sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God’s law the clearer it becomes that we aren’t obeying it. But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight – not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago. We are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done. For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” ~ Romans 3:20-27 (NLT)

27. “For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment of our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. … Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith.” ~ Romans 3:20-27 (NLT)

28. “atonement” = at-one-ment

29. “But when he came to himself he said…” ~ Luke 15:17 (NRSV)

30. “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.” ~ 1 John 1:8 (NASB)

31. “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.” ~ 1 John 1:8 (NASB) “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us form all unrighteousness.” ~ 1 John 1:9 (NASB)

32. “I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize….” ~ Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)

33. FORGIVENESS SAYS… I will not use this against you again. I will not will not talk to others about it. I will not dwell on it myself.

34. earching! s For Significance!