"Our life on earth is, and ought to……" — E. M. Forster
"Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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More Carnal Quotes
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
— Samuel Butler
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,…
— Richard Sibbes
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Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a…
— Richard Baxter
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I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it…
— Sam Kinison
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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too…
— John Flavel
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark…
— John Owen
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Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.
— Unknown Author
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within,…
— H. L. Mencken
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