Flesh Quotes - Page 36

• Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Law, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.437, Library of Alexandria

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• The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Horse, Sheep, Vegetarian Diet

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• Deep down in the Christian's life, always and all the time, there is to be a "no" to every demand that the flesh may make for recognition, and every demand that the flesh may make for approval, and every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Jesus, Body

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• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Fall, Rain

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• What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Divinity, May, Riches

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• God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Views, Dust

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• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Men, Practice

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.354, Ravenio Books

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• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Doe, Moral

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• Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Inward, Affliction

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• Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

  Edward Gibbon

  Guilt, Desire, Language

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1728, e-artnow

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• The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Taxation, Levels

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.349, Regnery Publishing

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• Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.

  Boy George

  Art, Special, Fabric

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Since Christ is the Word of God and the Truth of God, he may be received even by those who have not heard of his manifestation in the flesh... We have, therefore. the hope that even among the heathen there may be some, like Socrates, who, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit working through the truth of nature and conscience, have found the way of life and salvation.

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  May, Way, Spirit

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907). “Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace Book Designed for the Use of Theological Students”

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• Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

  Solomon

  Book, Study, Ecclesiastes

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• See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, World

  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.531

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• It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them....and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Blessed, Men, Vanity

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.244

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• The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.

  Isaac Ambrose

  Enemy, Devil

  Isaac Ambrose (1769). “War with Devils: Ministration Of, and Communion with Angels”, p.65

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• Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

  John Calvin

  Yield, Flames, Desire

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.523, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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• There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

  Phil McGraw

  Two, Differences, Knowing

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• Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Blood, Despair

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Men, Made

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• It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Giving Up, Soul, Vices

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• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

  Sophia Loren

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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