Quotes about Essence

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human.

To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Thus the true cause of the blessedness of the good angels is found to be this, that they cleave to Him who supremely is. And if we ask the cause of the misery of the bad, it occurs to us, and not unreasonably, that they are miserable because they have forsaken Him who supremely is, and have turned to themselves who have no such essence. And this vice, what else is it called than pride? For "pride is the beginning of sin."

After you die, you wear what you are.

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence" (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.