Flesh Quotes - Page 6

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

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

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

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.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

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

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

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.

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.