Quotes about Essence

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

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

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

Life is a search for the spiritual. Whether in the throes of pain or in the disappointments of pleasure, we strive for an essence that is beyond the physical.

These extremes of feeling at either end of the spectrum that most of us wish to avoid, even as we are drawn into them, are the twin realities that help shape our search. We want to find happiness. We want to avoid pain. We want to know who we are. We want to know what we are. We care about our origin and our essence. Pleasure and pain become indicators along the way on the road that will lead us to our destiny, and they are rooted in the question of our origin.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.