Quotes about Essence

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Your body is made up of around seventy-five trillion cells, every one of those cells containing hundreds of thousands of molecules with six feet of DNA in every cell containing over three billion letters of coding. These cells are a potent blend of matter and memory—bones and hair and blood and teeth and at the same time personality and essence and predispositions and habits.

In three words I can sum up everything I've

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

If religion is only a garment of Christianity and even this garment has looked very different at different time then what is religion less Christianity?

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

When you consider someone without assumptions, your inner antenna picks up a new signal. Instead of tuning in to someone's personality, you tune in to his or her essence. This essence is spirit, and when you detect it, the natural response is love.

The real business of life, however, is to find out who you really are.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.