Substance Quotes
What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.
Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.
Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.
People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance
If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party.
Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.