Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David,…
— William Gurnall
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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…
— Saint Augustine
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Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary
— Saint Augustine
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to…
— Pope Pius XII
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Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
— Adrienne Rich
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A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
— Leonard Cohen
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life…
— Plutarch
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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds…
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly…
— John Owen
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Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is…
— Pope Francis
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the…
— Terry Brooks
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given…
— Origen
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The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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