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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. (

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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.

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?

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

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.