Quotes about Essence
Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.
— Kay Arthur
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
— Marianne Williamson
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
Love is the very essence of life.
— Gordon Hinckley
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
— Joseph Campbell
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
— Ernest Hemingway
Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us. That is the essence of the gospel: to do exactly what Jesus did and destroy the works of the devil.
— Bill Johnson
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
What you seek, you already are.
— Deepak Chopra
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
— Bruce Lee
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Love is real, real is love.
— John Lennon