Quotes by Essence My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape. John Constable lightessencemother The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. John Adams politicalgovernmentessence The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not. John Cleese essenceplayfeelings It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. John Desmond Bernal essencesciencelong Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words. John Diefenbaker freedom-of-speechstrongessence A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. John Drinkwater realessenceexpression What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching. John Dewey inquiryessenceteaching We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus. John Eldred oxygenessencejesus Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being. John de Ruiter essenceprayerthinking The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher essencemilitarywar Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . . John Flavel oceanessencerivers We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another. John Friend essenceheartjoy Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner. John Friend essencelooksfirsts I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life. John Gutmann essencebelieveart In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. John Fowles essencewintercivilization The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. John Gunther essencewantfirsts Difference is of the essence of humanity. John Hume diversitydifferencesessence Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. John Hurt businessessencegames For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning. John Calvin essencemenson Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell John Jakes innocenceessenceheaven«4344454647484950515253»
