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Body Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are…
- Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh…
- The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or…
- On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what…
- People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast…
- Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed,…
- It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the…
- What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
- If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
- Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to…
- The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it…
- For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I…
More Body Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle