Quotes About Essence

For Paul, the will of God is known in essence in the obedient death of Jesus. In concrete and specific ways, however, God's will is known only when one offers oneself and one's body daily as a living sacrifice to one's rightful Lord:

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

In a world where everybody is over the bar, people don't buy what you know. They buy who you are.

The entire world cannot contain My glory, yet when I wish, I can concentrate My entire essence into one small spot.

it is what you are striving for which is important, not how you appear.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

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And are you unquestionably certain your haecceity is defined by your moniker?

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

Be, who you be.

palabra «misional» se entiende de una manera distinta cuando describe la naturaleza de la iglesia. En el mejor de los casos, no describe una actividad específica, sino la misma esencia e identidad de la iglesia cuando, en el contexto de su cultura, asume el rol que le corresponde en el relato de Dios y participa en la misión de Dios en el mundo.

Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Our lives unfold in space, and time is just an inessential left-over.

Para comemorar devidamente a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo, é preciso antes de mais nada acabar com os mundos remotos, os céus e supostos lugares de residência das ideias, das essências, das divindades. Esses espaços são míticos, sonhados e supostos. Não têm nenhuma existência, a não ser fantasística.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Jaden felt their boredom, their tired eternity. Beyond that, she felt their dying essence. They were immortal—all-powerful beings—and yet they were powerless against the onslaught of ever-changing time. They were lost in a modern world, one they didn't have the energy to understand. And, in being lost, they were immobilized against it. Not even their judgments could assuage their exhausted wisdom of forever.

France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant second, monetarily), and in terms of roles for women, it's unquestionably in the lead. When a French actress comes to America, she leaves a cinema interested in exploring her essence in favor of one that's not interested in anything about her, that's even hostile to the notion of making movies about women at all.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

A mí me sobra el cuerpo, Orfeo, me sobra el cuerpo porque me falta alma