Quotes About Essence

the Father is the Fountain-head of the Son, and the Son is the outflowing of the Father; and the Father and Son pour forth the Spirit; and the Unity, which is the essence of the Fountain-head, is also the substance of the three Persons.

No foundation. All the way down the line.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here.

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.

How long a time lies in one little word!

He wants the natural touch.

This is the short and the long of it.

The best in this kind are but shadows.

But I have that within which passeth show;These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

Although the last, not least.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

Other Lakota would respect it. None would try to coerce it or even influence it. None would mock it. Your understanding was the essence of you, and to follow it your sacred choice. All

But these were only things. In return for them the wasicu wanted you to relinquish your own genius, which was not of things but of the spirit. From

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.