Quotes about Essence
We are human beings, not human doings.
— Rick Warren
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
— Henri Nouwen
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
— David Ogilvy
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
— Vernon Howard
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
— Alistair Begg
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
— Johannes Tauler
Your body is made up of around seventy-five trillion cells, every one of those cells containing hundreds of thousands of molecules with six feet of DNA in every cell containing over three billion letters of coding. These cells are a potent blend of matter and memory—bones and hair and blood and teeth and at the same time personality and essence and predispositions and habits.
— Rob Bell
In three words I can sum up everything I've
— Robert Frost
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.
— John Stott
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
— John Wesley