Flesh Quotes - Page 16

• Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

  Jane Roberts

  Happiness, Believe, Joy

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.81, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

  Richard Baxter

  Dedication, Soul And Body, Holiness

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

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• Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

  Sholem Asch

  Resilience, Patterns, Youth

  Sholem Asch (1946). “East River”

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• That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Book, Christ

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• Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old
  Changes of the time take the toll.

  Damian Marley

  Evil, Everyday, Tolls

  Song: It Was Written

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• If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Direct Action, America

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!" He demanded."I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.""Why won't you answer my question correctly!

  Miranda Leek

  Moon, Soul, Answers

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• When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Echoes, Curves

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.737, Dell

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• I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

  Peter Damian

  Attachment, Spirit, Scourge

  Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.45, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Attachment, Saint, Penance

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• For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

  Peter Damian

  Eye, Pride, Attachment

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• Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Strong, Attachment, Discipline

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• He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

  Paul of the Cross

  Attachment, Doe, Palate

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• Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Blood, Devil

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• Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain;
  enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days.
  And you say you are tired?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Tired, Cities

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

  Hal Borland

  Mean, Air, Blood

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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• I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.

  Nas

  Energy, Heard, Dies

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• Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Yesterday, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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• There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, War, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. (1994–1998).

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• The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

  Watchman Nee

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.16, CLC Publications

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• Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Divorce, Expression, Stories

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.29, New World Library

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• The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Humility, Son

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• Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce.

  Damian Marley

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Song: There For You, Album: Welcome to Jamrock, 2005

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