Quotes about Essence

There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and the essence of our joy in them will be joy in him. What makes our reward truly great is the greater fullness of our fellowship with God.

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.

Therefore, the essence of our work as humans must be that it is done in conscious reliance on God's power, and in conscious quest of God's pattern of excellence, and in deliberate aim to reflect God's glory.

Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.

When the heart is far from God, worship is vain, empty, and nonexistent, no matter how proper the forms are. The experience of the heart is the defining, vital, indispensable essence of worship.

Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.

The Christian's holiness and happiness in God are not two separate realities. Happiness in God is the essence of holiness.

All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.

And the essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. That is the root we must sever (daily!)—desiring anything more than God.

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.