Quotes about Essence

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

The essence of love is kindness.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this Self.

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

It is not until Christians study the humility of Jesus as the very essence of His redemption, as the only true relationship to the Father, that the terrible lack of actual, heavenly humility will become a burden and a sorrow.