Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the…
— Georges Duhamel
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The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.
— Jerry Hall
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None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
— Maureen Howard
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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
— Anna Paquin
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The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and…
— Christopher Plummer
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When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as…
— John Banville
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity…
— Maximus the Confessor
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If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the…
— Maximus the Confessor
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If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our…
— Maximus the Confessor
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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real…
— Michael O'Donoghue
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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate…
— Donald Curtis
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Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass…
— Parker J. Palmer
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God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers,…
— Parley P. Pratt
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Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use…
— David Gerrold
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I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
— Antonio Banderas
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