Quotes About Essence

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

Only the soul knows what love is.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

Love is the essence of God.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.

It is within you that the divine lives.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

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

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.