Substance Quotes

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

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

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.

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.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

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.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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.

Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.

Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

The whole mass of any body is just the mass of ether surrounding the body which is carried along by the Faraday tubes associated with the atoms of the body. In fact, all mass is mass of the ether; all momentum, momentum of the ether; and all kinetic energy, kinetic energy of the ether, This view, it should be said, requires the density of the ether to be immensely greater than that of any known substance.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others—indeed, it is easier to “find” ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!

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

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

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

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Emotions are the natural substances of the soul ... and when we think we can't handle the emotions, we lose the natural substances of the soul and begin looking for substances to replace the flow.