Quotes about Essence
Stories of the beleaguered Saints and of their suffering and death will be repeated again and again...Stories of their rescue need to be repeated again and again. They speak of the very essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Gordon Hinckley
Through centuries of time, men and women, so very, very many, have lived and died. Some may die in the conflict that lies ahead. To us, and we bear solemn testimony of this, death will not be the end. There is life beyond this as surely as there is life here. Through the great plan which became the very essence of the War in Heaven, men shall go on living.
- Gordon Hinckley
Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
- Gordon Hinckley
Mediation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.
- James Allen
The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
- Edith Stein
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
- Heinrich Heine
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
- James Freeman Clarke
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
- Phillips Brooks
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
- CS Lewis
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
- Charles Swindoll