Quotes about Substance

Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.

For hence I believed Evil also to be some such kind of substance, and to have its own foul and hideous bulk; whether gross, which they called earth, or thin and subtile (like the body of the air), which they imagine to be some malignant mind, creeping through that earth. And because a piety, such as it was, constrained me to believe that the good God never created any evil nature, I conceived two masses, contrary to one another, both unbounded, but the evil narrower, the good more expansive.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

There is one universe out of all things, one god pervading all things, one substance, one law, one common reason in all intelligent beings, and one truth.

Through the universal Substance as through a rushing torrent all bodies pass on their way, united with the Whole in nature and activity, as our members are with one another.

We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.

Sometimes he gets high, on the pot that circulates as freely as cigarettes did once. He thinks he should be enjoying this experience more than he actually does.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.