Quotes about Essence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

writers of the Bible knew that we've lost track of—is that love is the very essence of God, and God is powerful. In fact, He is all-powerful.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.

Love is something eternal... The aspect may change but not the essence.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

After you die, you wear what you are.

Love is the bottom line.

Always remember, the essence of rebellion is the desire to be independent of God.

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.