Honor the Lord with thy substance.
Talent is form, genius is substance. [ Gutzkow ]
The substance of a diligent man is precious. [ Bible ]
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. [ William Penn ]
The art of making much show with little substance.. [ Macaulay ]
Retrench your desires, instead of increasing your substance. [ Proverb ]
Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. [ Wm. Blake ]
The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. [ Chaucer ]
For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil substance. [ Milton ]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [ Bible ]
No, no! I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here. [ William Shakespeare ]
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. [ Amiel ]
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. [ Bible ]
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed. [ Carlyle ]
Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is victory organized.
[ Bovee ]
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. [ Colton ]
One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind. [ William Shakespeare ]
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. [ William Shakespeare ]
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the air, in nature and substance are one and the same light, and yet they are there distinct lights: the light of the sun being of itself, and from none; the light of the moon from the sun; and the light of the air from them both. So the Divine Nature is one, and the persons three; subsisting, after a diverse manner, in one and the same Nature. [ R. Newton ]