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Flesh Quotes - Page 4

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

John Buchan (1912). “The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies”

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God I.1 § 1-7”, p.117, A&C Black

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

William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

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.

Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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

c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.2, no.2 (translated by M Staniforth).

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.281

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Eavan Boland (2013). “New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

"Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA