--- title: "14 Desires Flesh Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 14 Desires Flesh quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Desires Flesh sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian-living_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-44_44889.jpg" --- > [“The desires of the flesh leads to sin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin/) [Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian-living_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-44_44889.jpg) > [“The desires of the flesh leads to sin. But the delight of the spirit leads to life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-but-the-delight-of-the-spirit/) [Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e54/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-bu_1112270.jpg) > [ “But I say, walk and live \[habitually\] in the \[Holy\] Spirit \[responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit\]; then you… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-meyer/but-i-say-walk-and-live-habitually-in-the-holy-spirit-responsive-to/) [Joyce Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-meyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/joyce-meyer-123_desire_but-i-say-walk-and-live-habitually-in-th_2878810.jpg) > [Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-aleksandrovich-antonov/only-when-we-rid-ourselves-of-passions-and-lust-and-put-the-desires/) [Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-aleksandrovich-antonov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/vladimir-aleksandrovich-antono_accepting_only-when-we-rid-ourselves-of-passions-a_1517094.png) > [If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-you-make-provision-for-the-desires-of-the-flesh-and-bear-a-grudge/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f3/maximus-the-confessor-7435_accounts_if-you-make-provision-for-the-desires-of_124555.jpg) > [You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-rogers/you-can-live-with-victory-over-the-desires-of-your-flesh-habits/) [Adrian Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-rogers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/adrian-rogers-2096_attitude_you-can-live-with-victory-over-the-desir_413671.png) > [“I had never imagined I would be having a conversation with a stranger about consents regarding my body, someone who was just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ndeupewa/i-had-never-imagined-i-would-be-having-a-conversation-with-a-stranger/) [Ndeupewa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ndeupewa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/ndeupewa-94251_communication_i-had-never-imagined-i-would-be-having-a_1629390.jpg) > [“o love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes, desires take flesh thoughts take flesh, wings sprout on the backs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/o-love-is-to-battle-if-two-kiss-the-world-changes-desires-take-flesh/) [Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/octavio-paz-1790_change_o-love-is-to-battle-if-two-kiss-the-worl_2430315.jpg) > [If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/if-there-is-no-element-of-asceticism-in-our-lives-if-we-give-free/) [Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85d/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_asceticism_if-there-is-no-element-of-asceticism-in_1432974.jpg) > [“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scotty-smith/for-you-were-called-to-freedom-brothers-only-do-not-use-your-freedom/) [Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scotty-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a3/scotty-smith-1447_freedom_for-you-were-called-to-freedom-brothers_1400111.jpg) > [Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-broger/every-person-in-the-world-including-yourself-will-encounter-various/) [John C. Broger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-broger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/john-c-broger-31134_conqueror_every-person-in-the-world-including-your_2421237.jpg) > [“What our free choices determine, then, is not our eternal destiny, which is secure from the beginning, but the means required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-allinson-parry/what-our-free-choices-determine-then-is-not-our-eternal-destiny-which/) [Robin Allinson Parry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-allinson-parry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3c/robin-allinson-parry-75312_choices_what-our-free-choices-determine-then-is_3232150.jpg) > [In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/in-my-younger-days-i-struggled-constantly-with-an-overwhelming-but/) [Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/petrarch-6716_affair_in-my-younger-days-i-struggled-constantl_955496.jpg) > [Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-j-foster/nothing-disciplines-the-inordinate-desires-of-the-flesh-like-service/) [Richard J. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-j-foster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/richard-j-foster-1460_arrogance_nothing-disciplines-the-inordinate-desir_1551386.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desires-flesh/#itemlist", "name": "Desires Flesh Quotes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The desires of the flesh leads to sin.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lailah Gifty Akita" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian-living_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-44_44889.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian-living_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-44_44889.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/lailah-gifty-akita-11_christian-living_the-desires-of-the-flesh-leads-to-sin-44_44889.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The desires of the flesh leads to sin.” — Lailah Gifty Akita", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The desires of the flesh leads to sin. 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