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“The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.”

God Divine Glory Essence Love And Wisdom

Book:Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg

Source: Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg

“We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.”

Knows Perfect Glory Essence Absolutes Infinite Unlimited Dominion Transcendent

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.”

Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory.' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity.”

Knows Men Heart May Character Desire Names Christianity Influence Essentials Glory Essence Forgotten Practicals Motive Disposition Respectable Amiable

Book:A Practical View

Source: A Practical View

“What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.”

Glory Essence Weight Importance Atmosphere Demonstration Glory Of God Splendor Radiance Who God Is

Author:Rick Warren

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.”

“What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.”

Way Joy Evil Broken Glory Essence Misery Meant To Be Fountain Everlasting Another Way Exalted Mock Were Meant To Be Derision

Author:John Piper

“Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.”

Feels Doe Soul Self Light Dies Passion Hours Tree Moon Glory Essence Infinite Shining Bounds Rounds Dear Casts Temples Cheer Gloom

Author:John Keats

“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”

Giving Mean Ideas Wisdom Speak Creative Tree Glory Essence Consent Glory Of God Obeying Obeying God Creative Love

Author:Thomas Merton