Substance Quotes

The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

The substance is almost invisible to us.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

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.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.