Tag Archives: Meaning in Life

Promise

Posted on November 29, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

In John Bunyan’s great parable of life, the Pilgrim’s Progress, there’s a point where Christian and Hopeful are captured by the Giant Despair, locked in the dungeons of Doubting Castle and beaten unmercifully. But at dawn on Sunday, after days … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Encouragement, Faith, God, Hope, inner peace, Inspirational, Peaceful Sleep, Promise, Religion, Spiritual Insight, Spirituality, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble, Trust in God, Wisdom | Tagged anxiety, God's Will, happiness, Hope, inspirational sayings, Intuition, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, spirituality, worry | Leave a comment

But What Does He Think About You?

Posted on November 7, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

I had an interesting discussion with the librarian on a cruise ship recently. He noticed I’d checked out a book by the one-time atheist and now Oxford professor of theology, Alistair McGrath, entitled ‘The Dawkins Delusion’, a parady on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alistair McGrath, Atheism, Faith, God, Inspirational, Religion, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Trust in God, Wisdom | Tagged Atheism and Faith, Hope, Meaning in Life, religion, spirituality | 6 Comments

God Shaped Holes

Posted on November 2, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Sigmund Freud thought that religion is not about people finding God but people creating God. God, he claimed, is a projection of our needs and insecurities. Commenting on the bleakness of this view Freud said “I can offer people no … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Life's journey, Living Life, Personal Growth, Religion, Spiritual Insight, Spirituality | Tagged Atheism and Faith, fulfillment, God's Will, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion | Leave a comment

It’s not about where we are, but where we’re heading

Posted on October 22, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Oliver Wendell Holmes said: ‘I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must … Continue reading →

Posted in direction, Encouragement, Faith, God, Hell, inner peace, Inspirational, Journey, Life's journey, Living Life, old age, Personal Growth, pilgrimage, Spirituality, Trust in God, Wisdom | Tagged God With Us, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion, spirituality | Leave a comment

Divine Intelligence

Posted on October 14, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

A few years ago scientists in Arizona tried to set up an isolated living environment that would be a self contained microcosm of life on earth, containing soil, air, water, plants and animals. They called it Biosphere 2 and it … Continue reading →

Posted in creation, Faith, God, Inspirational, Intelligence behind the Universe, Living Life, Religion, Spiritual Insight, supreme being | Tagged Atheism and Faith, God With Us, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, religion | 1 Comment

Spiritual Furniture

Posted on July 21, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

The eminent psychologist Martin Seligman said that we need to ask ourselves why our grandparents, when they were thwarted, when the people they loved rejected them, when they didn’t get the job they wanted, and when their children died, didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in emptiness, Encouragement, Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Life's journey, Living Life, Loneliness, Neurosis, Personal Growth, pilgrimage, Prayer, quietness, Religion, Spiritual Furniture, Spirituality, supportive community, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble, Trust in God | Tagged anxiety, God With Us, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, rich inner life, spirituality, worry | Leave a comment

When More Feels Like less

Posted on July 10, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Someone has said that the paradox of our age is that we spend more, but seem to have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses, but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. We have … Continue reading →

Posted in emptiness, Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Living Life, Personal Growth, pilgrimage, Religion, satisfaction, Spirituality, Trust in God, Wisdom | Tagged disatisfaction, fulfillment, God With Us, happiness, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion, rich inner life, spirituality | Leave a comment

Finding ourselves by not being absorbed with ourselves

Posted on June 30, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Thomas Wolfe once wrote: ‘The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, emptiness, Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Life's journey, Living Life, Loneliness, love, Neurosis, Personal Growth, Religion, satisfaction, Spirituality, Trials and testings, tribulation and trouble | Tagged anxiety, Dr Karl Meninger, fulfillment, God With Us, Hope, inspirational sayings, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion, spirituality, worry | 1 Comment

What I don’t know is where I am going!

Posted on June 6, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Albert Einstein was well known for being absent minded. On one occasion he was travelling on a train and the conductor came to check his ticket. Einstein, however, had become so engrossed in his work that he couldn’t remember where … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, God, inner peace, Inspirational, Journey, Life's journey, Living Life, pilgrimage, Religion, Spirituality | Tagged disatisfaction, fulfillment, God's Will, happiness, inspirational sayings, journeys, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, religion, rich inner life, spirituality | Leave a comment

Love isn’t love till you give it away

Posted on May 27, 2013 by vincentsmithauthor

Mary Martin, star of the Broadway version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, was about to go on stage one night, as she had a thousand times before, when a note was handed to her. The letter was … Continue reading →

Posted in Joy, Living Life, love, Personal Growth, satisfaction, Spirituality | Tagged entertainment, Gift of love, God's Will, hammerstein musical, inspirational sayings, Love, Meaning in Life, peace with one's self, rodgers and hammerstein, spirituality | 1 Comment