Flesh Quote by John Calvin

“But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.”

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

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