Sins Of The Flesh Quotes:

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Evil, Catholic, Flesh, Chastity Purity, Evil Thoughts

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

topic: Men, Childhood, Flesh, Sins Of The Flesh

Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Order, Doctrine, Flesh, Divine Order, Sins Of The Flesh

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Jesus, Compassion, Forgiving, Ragamuffin Gospel, Sins Of The Flesh

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.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sleep, Unhappy, Flesh, Sated, Sins Of The Flesh

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

- Mark Lawrence

topic: Years, Flesh, Want, Sins Of The Flesh

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

topic: Soul, Flesh, Physicians, Malady, Sins Of The Flesh

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

topic: Christian, Men, Animal, Sins Of The Flesh

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

- David Levithan

topic: Kissing, Scare, Tools, Scare Tactics, Sins Of The Flesh

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

- Leslie Marmon Silko

source: Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

topic: World, Flesh, Spirit, Sins Of The Flesh

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

- Muriel Spark

topic: Jealousy, Giving, Affliction, Sins Of The Flesh