Flesh Quotes

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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 of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

What do yo think human flesh tastes like?

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.