Flesh Quotes - Page 5

• The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

  F.B. Meyer

  Lust, Galatians, Spirit

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• The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

  Steven Galloway

  Way, World, Fingers

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Wise, Heart

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• It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

  Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

  Christian, Religious, Blood

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• We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God – all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Eye, Pride, Heaven

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• The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

  Marc Bloch

  Lying, History, Giants

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press

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• Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

  Philip Kapleau

  Buddhist, Animal, Individual

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Opportunity, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.12, Vintage

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• The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Auras, Given

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Failure, Watches, Film

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• Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Laughter, Love Life

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Christian, Poverty

  Address of the Holy Father at the meeting with representatives of Paraguayan civil society, w2.vatican.va. July 11, 2015.

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• Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.108

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• Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Spirit, Repentance, Arise

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• Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

  Portia de Rossi

  Bones, Shame

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

  Victor Hugo

  Surface

  "The Man Who Laughs".

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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Heroism, Ordinary

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.135, Zondervan

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• If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Mind

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• There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

  Jane Roberts

  Animal, Self, Trying

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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• After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Fire, Blood

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• You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

  Ha Jin

  Dog, Heart, Strive

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Feb 17, 2017

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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