Quotes About Essence

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

I believe that there is God in all of us

God is simple, everything else is complex

God…is the center of all selves.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

God's presence is all that matters.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.