Quotes and Sayings About Flesh
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We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
-- A. B. Simpson -
A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
-- Alan Moore -
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
-- Alan Moore -
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-- Alyssa Milano -
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
-- Ambrose -
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
-- Amy Tan -
Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
-- Amy Tan -
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
-- Angela Carter -
I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
-- Anna Paquin -
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
-- Anthony Burgess -
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
-- Audre Lorde -
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
-- Barbara Block -
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
-- Ben Kingsley -
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
-- Benny Hinn -
A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
-- Bob Jones, Sr. -
I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
-- Bob Marley -
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
-- Brennan Manning