Flesh Quotes - Page 9

• It is true that not even Christ is seen, but he exists; he is risen, he is alive, he is close to us, more truly than the most enamored husband is close to his wife. Here is the crucial point: to think of Christ not as a person of the past, but as the risen and living Lord, with whom I can speak, whom I can even kiss if I so wish, certain that my kiss does not end on the paper or on the wood of a crucifix, but on a face and on the lips of living flesh (even though spiritualized), happy to receive my kiss.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Christian, Husband, Kissing

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• Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Powerful, Character

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• There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

  Theodore Parker

  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

  David Wallace

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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• Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Bones, One Love

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• A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Men, Unity

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• If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Men

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• For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

  Matthew Polly

  Hurt, Evil, Wickedness

  Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.252, Penguin

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• I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Holy Eucharist

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• Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Cups

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• By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

  Pope Leo I

  Baptism, Made

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• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

  Cyprian

  Believe, Grace, Baptism

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• How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

  Thiruvalluvar

  Compassion, Shows

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• The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Attachment, Oysters

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• Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.

  Pope Clement I

  Jesus, Blood, Height

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• An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Men, Understanding

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• He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Spiritual, Men, Perfection

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• I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Blood, Delight

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• Flesh is heretic.
  My body is a witch.
  I am burning it.

  Eavan Boland

  Burning, Body, Witch

  Eavan Boland (2013). “New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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• All good things
  Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Helping, Good Things

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Son, Crosses, Existence

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

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• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

  Christine de Pizan

  Lying, Feet, Ribs

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Portraits, Doe

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