Quotes about Essence
Therefore, the essence of our work as humans must be that it is done in conscious reliance on God's power, and in conscious quest of God's pattern of excellence, and in deliberate aim to reflect God's glory.
— John Piper
Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.
— John Piper
When the heart is far from God, worship is vain, empty, and nonexistent, no matter how proper the forms are. The experience of the heart is the defining, vital, indispensable essence of worship.
— John Piper
Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.
— John Piper
The Christian's holiness and happiness in God are not two separate realities. Happiness in God is the essence of holiness.
— John Piper
All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.
— John Piper
And the essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. That is the root we must sever (daily!)—desiring anything more than God.
— John Piper
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
— John Wooden
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
— Emil Brunner
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
— George Lucas
The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.
— George W. Bush
Jesus reduced the Torah to two points — loving God, loving others (the Jesus Creed) — not to abolish the many laws but to comprehend them and to see them in their innermost essence
— Scot McKnight