Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep… — Faxian
I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I… — Shane Black
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love? — William Faulkner
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and… — Pope Francis
I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. — Elbert Hubbard
We are all made of flesh, of matter. And at the end, this matter is dissolved in light, and transformed into energy. It’s the Einstein… — Vittorio Storaro
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other… — Joseph Addison
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions,… — Thomas Browne
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the… — Mishka
Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your… — Mishka
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for… — Charles Edward Montague
I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one… — Henry David Thoreau
This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the… — David Platt
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world. — Thomas a Kempis
I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit… — Naima Adedapo
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe… — Marge Piercy
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. — Mignon McLaughlin
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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