Flesh Quotes

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dream, Peace, One Day

I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Charles Stanley

Prayer, Gods Will

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves Of Grass, Fluency, Alms

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Christian, Identity, Spirit

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In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

T. B. Joshua

Heart, Men, Spirit

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A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

Wounds And Scars, Self Injury, Made

Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.10, Emblem Editions

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It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

Liam Neeson

Inspirational, Baby, Race

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Allen Ginsberg

Art, War, Community Living

Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Art is science in the flesh.

Jean Cocteau

Art, Philosophy, History

Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Paul the Apostle

Lust, Galatians, Spirit

Saint Paul (the Apostle), Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade (1848). “Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections”, p.339

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

Death, Science, Perception

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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

E. Stanley Jones

God, Heart, Blood

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

Believe, Soul, Politics

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Hermann Hesse

Individuality, Suffering, Spirit

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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Thomas Aquinas

Evil, Catholic, Purity And Love

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What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Aesop

Sticks, Bones

Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

Antonin Artaud

Soul, World, Rotting

Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Ida B. Wells

Cutting, Lynching, Ears

"Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Lee Strasberg

Art, Blood, Theatre

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A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

Amy Levy

Husband, Alaska, Blood

Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”

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Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Rosa Luxemburg

Blood, Democracy, Pieces

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Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

George Whitefield

Kings, Men, Glory

George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.281

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If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Tim LaHaye

Jesus, Son, People

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This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Blood, Earth, Planets

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A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Thomas Gold Appleton

Men, Boston, Wind

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