Top 100 The Flesh Quotes
#1. My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me ...
They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
They might feel the music but could never ever feel me.
Jay Electronica
#2. Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.
Nan Shepherd
#3. Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
Adrian Rogers
#4. 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.
Erich Fromm
#5. Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
Tupac Shakur
#6. Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
Anais Nin
#7. There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.
Jennifer Niven
#8. words carry colors and sounds into the flesh
Anais Nin
#9. When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh.
Matthew Donnelly
#10. I felt dull and somnolent, for 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. William
Umberto Eco
#11. And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
William Tyndale
#12. no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect and eschewed the material world and the ignobility of the flesh, if your heart just gave out . . . That
Iain M. Banks
#13. Nietzche ... he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius
#15. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.
Victor Hugo
#16. Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark
#17. Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.
Edward Gibbon
#18. Perhaps." The king of Heralds offered no further explanation. "And Taln?" Kalak asked. The flesh burning. The fires. The pain over and over and over ...
Brandon Sanderson
#19. He won't be safe," Hatcher repeated. "For I will find him and I will strip the flesh from his bones piece by piece. There is no place the Rabbit can hide, no hole he can disappear into. I will not sleep again until I have heard him scream for mercy he will never receive.
Christina Henry
#20. Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.
Vanna Bonta
#21. Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these ... We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.
Justin Martyr
#22. Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Francis Of Assisi
#23. In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the concsciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.
Victor Hugo
#24. Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.
Virginia Woolf
#25. There is a very thin line of demarcation dividing true love from unadulterated lust. What is love without the pleasures of the flesh and what is lust sans a fluttering heart?
Anurag Shourie
#26. To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.
Philip Kapleau
#27. The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
Fulton J. Sheen
#28. Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
Remy De Gourmont
#29. Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
#30. Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
The pieces kiss again, no end to this.
John Crowe Ransom
#31. When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.
Sathya Sai Baba
#32. The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
Ian Gardner
#33. I can't take it y'all
I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving
Mos Def
#34. The flesh is that voice in your head that tells you, "If it feels good do it." It tells us that we need things when we don't, and if we followed it we'd sleep too late, eat too much, and eventually come to poverty. That's where the heart wants to lead us.
Darlene Schacht
#35. Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His
Jan Swafford
#38. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
Tanith Lee
#39. Nadua was stunned by his gentleness; when he looked as though ready to tear the flesh from her throat with his lengthening fangs.
Kiersten Fay
#40. No [Peter] Pan has ever survived past puberty. When their bodies start changing, they start looking for the rope and the razor blades. There are some betrayals of the flesh that they simply aren't designed to endure.
Seanan McGuire
#41. I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.
Catherine Crowe
#42. It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.
Jeff VanderMeer
#44. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." JOHN 6:63, 68 (NKJV)
Andrew Murray
#45. Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil
Robert D. Hales
#46. We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#47. Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.
Lynn Hubbard
#48. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Sarah Price
#49. Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh
Sunday Adelaja
#50. 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.
Oscar Wilde
#52. I thought ... it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
Joey W. Hill
#53. Every hour of temptation in one's life has origin. Either from the flesh or the devil .
Osunsakin Adewale
#54. Every Christian has a capacity for the most magnificent Christlikeness. Yet, every Christian also has the potential to commit the most disgusting and horrible acts of the flesh.
Stephen Mansfield
#55. Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
Ephrem The Syrian
#56. Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.
Saint Remigius
#57. I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.
Kellie Elmore
#58. There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.
John Owen
#59. As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.
James E. Faust
#60. Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton
#63. I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.
Adolf Hitler
#64. A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.
Ravi Zacharias
#65. Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little.
"I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea ...
L.M. Montgomery
#66. The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.
Mason Cooley
#67. 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.
Emily Carr
#68. It isn't as simple as a fascination of the flesh. It's everything about her that I love: her intelligence, her ambition, her talent, her sense of humor, her dependability, her kindness.
Kristen Zimmer
#70. Not all men are like you," she said. "Most are not so weak as to require the constant pleasures of the flesh the way you do." "True. I hope you can bear with me, for I feel that a bout of weakness is coming on. My humble apologies.
Ariel Atwell
#71. Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.
Gary Rohrmayer
#72. We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.
Bonar Law
#74. I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.
Augustus William Hare
#75. In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil.
Anne Rice
#76. 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.
Peter Kreeft
#77. The flesh dies, or at least it changes, and its passions pass, but that other passion of the spirit - that longing for oneness - is undying as itself.
H. Rider Haggard
#78. But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).
Jerry Bridges
#79. You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.
Mike Carey
#80. In order to successfully lead people to salvation, it is necessary for you to be righteous and free from sin, living by the spirit and reject the works of the flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
John Calvin
#82. The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Pope John Paul II
#83. Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
David Low
#84. If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature ...
Thomas Aquinas
#85. It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
William H Gass
#86. 5:14 For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another! 5:16 So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Ronald L. Conte Jr.
#87. 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.
Rae Foley
#88. We go wherever the flesh creeps least, said Mercier. We dodge along, hugging the walls, wherever the shit lies least thick.
Samuel Beckett
#89. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.
C.S. Lewis
#90. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...
Raphael Carter
#91. I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#92. Nature permits us respite only when we are free from the desires of the flesh. It is a truth that sustains us and is a serious principle at the heart of all existence. It lifts our life beyond the confines of earthly concerns and exalts our natures to the stars. Is this not a miracle?
Seneca.
#93. A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
Chinua Achebe
#94. It was not the flesh we would have chosen, but I had long since given up dreams of resembling anyone from the movies and, with the pragmatism of the perfectly average, come to realise that this was me and that was fine.
Kate Griffin
#95. The empty husks of the dead have arisen,and the crave the flesh of the living
Shake-O
#96. One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind
Martin Walser
#97. I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body's pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.
Dorianne Laux
#98. Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
Monica Johnson
#99. Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.
Brigham Young
#100. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.
Jaime Buckley
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