Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a… — Cyril of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals.… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure.… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government . . .” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
