If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have. — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is the realization of the essence of one's own being, who we really are.” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
Being in doesn't mean that we have to be with that person in a bodily form Alwz..but the essence of love is… — Somosree Dutta Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both. — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“To get the most out of the relationship you are in, it won't be helpful to listen to the ego's stories about… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation. — William Feather Copy Share Image
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image