Quotes About Essence

The body without the spirit is a corpse; the spirit without the body is a ghost.

to the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

If one is not a human being, what is one?

but the beast was man, had always been man.

A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful - or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are.

A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful—or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are. Grace is a rare thing.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Ott a legjobb a szÅ'lÅ', ahol honos. Ott érti meg az ember legjobban a demokrácia lényegét, ahol honos.

I will love you not just for your wit and talent and beauty, but simply because you are you, with no strings attached. I love you for who you are deep in your soul, not for the colour of your eyes or the length of your legs or the size of your cheque book.

Your soul animates your body, but is not contained

El Amor, que es lo que me creó, es lo que soy.

You can take the person out of heaven, but you can't take the heaven out of the person.

transcendental phenomenology as a science of pure essential possibilities of knowing

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

Identity based on what we have is aham, not atma.

You may value me for what I have and what I do. But I am not what I have or what I do. If you love me, focus on who I am: my hungers and my fears, and my potential to focus on who you are.

Ramkrishna Paramhansa, the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic, said that the essence of The Gita can be deciphered simply by reversing the syllables that constitute Gita. So Gita, or gi-ta, becomes ta-gi, or tyagi, which means 'one who lets go of possessions.

His words contain the essence of Vedic wisdom, the keystone of Hinduism. Ramkrishna Paramhansa, the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic, said that the essence of The Gita can be deciphered simply by reversing the syllables that constitute Gita. So Gita, or gi-ta, becomes ta-gi, or tyagi, which means 'one who lets go of possessions.

What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.

If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ