Flesh Quotes

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

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

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.