Quotes about Essential
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
— Stephen Covey
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
— Marianne Williamson
My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about him or myself or my neighbors.
— Eugene Peterson
An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!
— Beth Moore
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
— Samuel Rutherford
To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.
— Thomas Merton
There is no situation in life that can't be improved by laugher. Sometimes humor can help us get through situations we couldn't possibly endure without it. Sometimes laughter isn't superfluous; it's essential. Sometimes laughter is the next lesson we need to be learning.
— Melody Beattie
Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.
— Beth Moore
It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
— Erwin McManus
Repentance is only one part of our response to Christ (and even the strength to repent comes from God). But it is an essential part, for without it we cannot claim Christ is our Lord. The Bible says, "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret" (2 Cor. 7:10 NIV).
— Billy Graham
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
— Francis Chan
In prayer Jesus slows us down, teaches us to count how few days we have, and gifts us with wisdom. He reveals to us that we are so caught up in what is urgent that we have overlooked what is essential. He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.
— Brennan Manning