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• Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No, we use facts connected with Him to outline qualities that correspond with Him, collecting a faint and feeble mental image from various quarters. Our noblest theologian is not one who has discovered the whole - our earthly shackles do not permit us the whole - but one whose mental image is by comparison fuller, who has gathered in his mind a richer picture, outline, or whatever we call it, of the truth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mind, Quality

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• [Our Lord Jesus Christ] was... carried up to heaven (Lk. 24:50-51). With a radiant cloud for a chariot, He ascended in glory (cf. Acts 1:9), entered the Holy of Holies not made by hands and sat down on the right hand of the heavenly majesty, making our human substance share His own throne and divinity.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Jesus, Clouds

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• The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Essence, Spirit, Spirituality

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• The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. They who preach this truth preach the gospel in whatever else they may be mistaken; but they who preach not the atonement, whatever else they declare, have missed the soul and substance of the divine message.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Sacrifice, Essence

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.477, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Men, Yield

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.867, Modern Library

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• Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mean, Heart, Giving

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• When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Suffering, Facts

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Gross, Products

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Clothes, Hammers, Body

  H. Emilie Cady (2014). “The Spiritual Writings Of H. Emilie Cady”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

  Nikola Tesla

  Matter, Primaries

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• There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.

  B. B. Warfield

  Unity, Three, Persons

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• Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.

  Kurt Eichenwald

  Creativity, Ideas, Swagger

  Kurt Eichenwald (2005). “Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

  Thomas Jefferson

  Important, Hemp, Nations

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• There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Should Have, Over You, Reason Why

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• Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Pain, Loss, Marijuana

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• I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

  Lily Collins

  Girl, Teenage, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

  Avery Brooks

  Dream, Heart, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Animal, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.484, Delphi Classics

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• Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Light, Land, Essence

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• The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

  Charles Lamb

  Glasses, Imagination, Quality

  Charles Lamb (1828). “Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine”, p.195

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• I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Hypocrite, Men, Long

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• If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Expression

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• In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

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• We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

  Keith Getty

  Unique, Essentials, Stories

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