Flesh Quotations | Page 5

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

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

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

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

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

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

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.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

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.

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

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

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

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!

Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.

I am the family face; / Flesh perishes, I live on, / Projecting trait and trace / Through time to times anon, / And leaping from place to place / Over oblivion.

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

It was really just whatever - good times, bad times, it didn't matter. There was no ceremony. It wasn't like 'Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off.'

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

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.

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

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

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

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.

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

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

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

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

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

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

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.

I will pour out my spirit on all flesh

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

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.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

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.

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

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.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.