Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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

Religion, to have any force upon men’s understandings,–indeed, to exist at all,–must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdist thing in the world,–an acknowledged cheat.

For the social ecologist language is not “communication.” It is not just “message.” It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. Social ecologists need not be “great” writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in.

One story sounds good until another is told

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.