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Quotes About Essence

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
~ Ernest Holmes
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
~ Ezra Pound
If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.
~ Radhanath Swami
God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.
~ Socrates
In God, I move and breathe and have my being.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.
~ Eileen Caddy
God is what's good in me.
~ John Gunther
To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am." God is. Whatever is, that is God.
~ Michael Gungor
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
~ John Piper
God doesn't know things. He is things.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.
~ Susan Jacoby
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.
~ Walter Lippmann
That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.
~ Wayne Dyer
You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.
~ Wayne Dyer
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.
~ Max Anders
What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.
~ Radhanath Swami
God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.
~ Rick Warren
Take God from nature, nothing great is left.
~ Edward Young
You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.
~ Josh McDowell
Man is an appearance, God is a reality.
~ Kedar Joshi