Quotes about Essence
Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.
— Tony Evans
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
— Marcus Aurelius
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
— GK Chesterton
I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.
— Jack Kerouac
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What we have to be is what we are.
— Thomas Merton
Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
— Ted Dekker
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
— DH Lawrence
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
— Oswald Chambers
The real things about man are not his body.
— TB Joshua
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel