Flesh Quotes - Page 27

• For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.

  Juliana Berners

  Heart, Soul And Body, Skins

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• there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Irritation, Virtue, Abstract

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  N.D. Wilson

  Stories, Catechism, Impulse

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• What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Alive, Way, Humans

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• But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

  Helen Waddell

  Mind, Desire

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  Ed Westwick

  Years, Long, Nails

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Gay

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• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Real

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Humor

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• I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Religious, Real, Blood

  "Any answers?". Interview with Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hair, Mind, Green

  A S Byatt (2011). “A Stone Woman (Storycuts)”, p.11, Random House

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• The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Heart, Law, Guilt

  Gilles Deleuze (2008). “Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

  Maeve Binchy

  Oil, Tomatoes, Littles

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• Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.

  Joan Nestle

  Color, Two, Way

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• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  Barbara Block

  Sharks, People, Want

  "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Heart, Giving, Stones

  "Fictional character: Thomas Cromwell". "Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2012.

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• Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sweet, Agency, Evil

  "The Race of Life". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Consciousness, Bones, Strive

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

  Lane Kirkland

  Men, Blood, Brain

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• The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Drama, Blood

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• Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Spirit, Moments

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• In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

  Richard Lewontin

  Law, Facts, Biology

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Night, Light, Dust

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.9, Open Road Media

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