Quotes about Essence
A true believer is eating what he or she is afraid to see and afraid to accept: The universe is the Body of God, both in its essence and in its suffering.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that : you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Everything is the "child of God." No exceptions. When you think of it, what else could anything be? All creatures must in some way carry the divine DNA of their Creator.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings. God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
- Rick Warren
We are human beings, not human doings.
- Rick Warren
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
- Henri Nouwen
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
- David Ogilvy
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
- Vernon Howard
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
- Alistair Begg
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson