Quotes about Essence
Love is the essence of God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.
— Ravi Zacharias
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.
— AW Pink
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
— Margaret Atwood
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
— Robert Frost
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
— Henry Ford
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
— John Milton
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
— Aristotle