Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens… — Simone Weil
Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of… — J R Ward
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally… — Saint Augustine
Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead.… — Andre Maurois
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly… — Jean Giraudoux
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of… — Rebecca West
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches… — Saint Augustine
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated… — Sam Shoemaker
You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh.… — Martin Luther
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. — Robert Browning
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. — Alexander Pope
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a… — Charles Horton Cooley
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex… — Iris Murdoch
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and… — Epicurus
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh… — Mel Gibson
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. — John Buchan

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