Flesh Quotes

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

We are capitalism made flesh.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.