Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity…
— Robert South
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Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the…
— Paul David Tripp
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Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the…
— Lactantius
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The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is…
— Orson F. Whitney
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Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where…
— Lewis Buzbee
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the…
— William S. Burroughs
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God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and…
— Ellen G. White
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man…
— Dalai Lama
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the…
— Richard Wagner
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It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in…
— Catherine Booth
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We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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