Quotes about Substance
Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.
— James Buchanan
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
— Aesop
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
— Henry Ford
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.
— Jon Gordon
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
— Victor Hugo
Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.
— Kenneth Copeland
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
— BB Warfield
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
— Thomas Merton