The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Simplicity is the essence of universality.