Flesh Quotes - Page 32

• Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Bird, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.364, Oxford University Press

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• Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Skeletons, Blood, Skins

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.231, Tara Publishing

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• None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Renounce, Will To Live

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• A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Mind, Fasting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Progress, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Air, People, Body

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Aunt

  Source: capro.info

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• Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Spring, Identity

  Source: multiplymovement.wordpress.com

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• I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Ideas, Church, Culture

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

  John Calvin

  Peaceful, Doe, Delight

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• Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

  Russell Baker

  Understanding, Purses, Baltimore

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

  Neal Shusterman

  Earth, Natural, Make Sense

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• There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Children, Blessed

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• We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Fasting, Fellowship With God

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• Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

  Sydney Smith

  Summer, August, Weather

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.269, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  Thomas Hardy

  Faces, Rough Times, Oblivion

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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• Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

  Akhenaton

  Character, Soul, Honor

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• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Jesus, Thinking, Soul And Body

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• Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

  Thomas Watson

  Faith, Christian, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Thomas Watson (1794). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness”, p.98

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• Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

  Charles Fillmore

  Forgiveness, Life Changing, Night

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• Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Men, Two

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 2, sc. 3

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• The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

  Dan Brown

  Skins, World, Declaration

  Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.10, Random House

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• Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Peace, Real

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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