Quotes about Essence

Love is the essence of God.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

Life minus love equals zero.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

When God spreads his glory, he is not seeking to add to himself, rather, he is just being himself.

Religion to other religions. Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

There's only things, Blackie.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.