86 Quotes About Flesh

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God. Vaslav Nijinsky

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. Unknown

Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would really want to under his natural pretense? And even if somehow he could and he succeeded, would not it be artificial? Would not he seem far too aware of his own talents of achieving humility for it to be such? Alternatively, he would need a distraction, something else to love; it is not that the Humbleman thinks poorly of himself, nor highly for that matter, but rather he does not think of himself at all - and this is because he is too busy loving something or someone else to do it. For the humility of this kind 'rears its head' as the most love-driven and free, spiritual of virtues; whereas its opposite, pride, the most self-imprisoning human vice. . Criss Jami

Everything I have become, everything I will ever accomplishcannot compare to my mostimpressive feat: I have loved youfiercelyand assiduouslywith the very marrowinside my bones. So that when I die, they can crack them to findyou there. So that when I die, they can open me upand see your name tattooed on the wall of my heart. So that when I die, my epitaph will neither commemoratewho I wasnor what I did, but will read:“ She loved. And loved. And loved.” And so, I smile now, because that is no small thing. Kamand Kojouri

The science of the spirit and its relationship to the body in which it indwells is a complex conundrum. Life is not what it appears to be. Life is wholesome, and this unison of synergistic amalgamations persuade the common view that one thing is the other. But one thing is many things - at the one time - and this simple truth goes to the essence of all life with its manifold complexities. Gabriel Brunsdon

Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry. Conn Iggulden

It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare. Criss Jami

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition. Michael Bassey Johnson

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. Israelmore Ayivor

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His spirit Sunday Adelaja

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us... . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)? Richard Baxter

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His Spirit. Sunday Adelaja

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef. Tom Stoppard

Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again. Michael Bassey Johnson

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold. Criss Jami

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. Jen Pollock Michel

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals. Michael Bassey Johnson

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves. Rue

They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests.....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood. Israelmore Ayivor

Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG to walk towards what Christ used a compassionate FLESH to build for you Israelmore Ayivor

Her eyes burn like a match head striking my flesh with ferocity and precision to ignite the night with a divinorum induced dream. A.P. Sweet

You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on. Psyche RoxasMendoza

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh. Felix Wantang

All such desires are cut short by the statement: the Word became flesh. It is in his sheer humanity that he is the Revealer. True, his own also see his δόξα (v.14b); indeed if it were not to be seen, there would be no grounds for speaking of revelation. But this is the paradox which runs through the whole gospel: the δόξα is not to be seen alongside the σάρξ as through a window; it is to be seen in the σάρξ and nowhere else. If man wishes to see the δόξα, then it is on the σάρξ that he must concentrate his attention, without allowing himself to fall victim to appearances. The revelation is present in a peculiar hiddenness. Rudolf Karl Bultmann

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth. Michael Bassey Johnson

Everytime you’re denying the flesh, you’re feeding and making the spirit stronger. Jeanette Coron

Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice T.F. Hodge

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit. Damon Galgut

Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh. Sunday Adelaja

Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you? Sunday Adelaja

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. Criss Jami

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him. David Pietrusza

DICK’S DESIREDick's eyes- Soft, cold, and blue- Meet Devonshire's-Dark, sexy, and yearning. Turning away- Dick grabs two packets of sugar- While Devonshire's eyes- Are still upon him- Pondering his every move. Is Dick a playboy, A ladies' man, A mans' man, Or a killer? Does his sex long for, Something hard- Or something soft? Does he need cream in his coffee- The screaming splash of a man, Or the sweet flow of a woman? Finishing up at the bar- Dick turns to leave- Meets Devonshire's gaze again- Hot, thirsty, and longing- But full of trepidation. Following the flow of etiquette- Dick shoots out of the cafe, Past Devonshire, And into a world of dashed hopes, And regrets. But Devonshire-No longer of two worlds- Rises in pursuit- Goes after Dick, And taps him on the shoulder. Dick gives a turn, Raises his shoulders, And smiles with interest- Taking Devonshire's hand, And asking his name. Devonshire answers- Desire. Dick invites Devonshire to dinner, Where he eats everything, Swallowing Dick's life stories, And devouring his misgivings. For dessert, Devonshire takes Dick home, Into his bed, Against his flesh, And gives Dick all of him- His deepest desires, The love in his eyes, And the fire in his soul. Giorge Leedy

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought. Unknown

The trouble with being an angel on Earth was that he was still a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. His lungs clamored without the draw of air. And for this woman, the only one in a thousand years, his body and soul ached. The trick was to will his mind, and ignore the Earthly sensations, as he'd done so many times with pain and trouble. Desire was no different, a call of the flesh. He could divide himself-acknowledge the lust and act on intellect. But see, the trouble with being an angel was that he was still a man. Erin Kellison

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub! A M B A S S A D O R: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh. M I N I S T E R: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow. A M B A S S A D O R: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate!. Angela Carter

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those of us existing in the world of the living, for we possess already a memory, in its stead, which serves as a basis of our perception of the past. Accurate or not, this nature of memory allows us to understand the past according to the positions occupied by the flesh about which we seek to know, but, unfortunately, not in a way relative to the flesh itself–that flesh stripped of identity and circumstance, that flesh which, in its most rudimentary capacity, had once collided, interacted, fought, competed, negotiated, cooperated, and mated with other flesh: there is no history of this kind, thoroughly naked and telling enough, which is accessible to us, for we are composed of the very same substance, the very same flesh, and sadly incapable of stepping outside of it, even momentarily. Ashim Shanker

As sonner began as sooner finished.. the guilt is after you. I feel it, I see it and I smell you have done something.., didn't you?? Something bad.. isn't it?? Tell me.. don't be afraid I won't do anything bad.. (I will just cut your fingers one by one.. on your hands.. it will be one bloody night.. Then I will start with your legs finger by finger with axe.. then I will start removing little from you.. the flesh from you! ) . Deyth Banger

The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. Charles Bukowski

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me. Charles Dickens

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. Barbara W. Tuchman

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man. Michael Bassey Johnson

And now that this body is gone and has been returned to the Earth, I assure everyone that psychic energy doesn’t die, it is recycled throughout the universe and will out live anything that we do as living beings. Flesh will decay, ideas won’t as long as you believe in them and someone believes in you. A.P. Sweet

The toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound of stream into bowland go to hug the naked bodystood with its back to you and kiss the neckand taste the whole of the night on thereand smell the morning’s pale yellow lossand take the whole of him in your handand feel the water moving through himand knowing that this is love the prone fleshwhat we expel from the body and what we let inside . Andrew McMillan

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. Alexis De Tocqueville

She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good. Jim Thompson

The desires of the flesh leads to sin. Lailah Gifty Akita

Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill. Paul C. Nagel

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest; William Shakespeare

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing. Dixie Waters

Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice. Learn how to pray, and do it. Discover what pride is, and get rid of it. Develop a self-concept that is adequate and accurate. Clarify your values. Identify your talents. Probe the fact, meaning, and use of your sexuality. Face the fact that you engage in self-deception. Reflect on truth that you are made in the image of God. Use your spiritual gift. Clear your conscience. Feel deeply. Enjoy life. Face death. Treat your body right. Conquer the flesh. Depend on the Holy Spirit. Be humble. J. Grant Howard

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own. George Eliot

When God says he doesn't see a man, the logical question would be to ask, what then does he see? In my thinking, I believe the word that best describes what God sees in the absence of a man is a bunch of flesh — biological masses. There is a word that might best fit the description of what God sees when he looks at the earth, the word is BIOMASS or BIOMASSES. Sunday Adelaja

And if I consume another mortal’s flesh, will I like god before me, shit a million stars upon the naked, wretched sky? A.P. Sweet

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh. Kathryn Davis

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, " she murmured. Marie Belloc Lowndes

What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious. Benjanun Sriduangkaew

I fell in love with the boy next door, and my own flesh became a thing I'd never really worn before. Sometimes, pressing my palms together, I thought I felt a magnetic field between them- something invisible but shaped, like sound, or heat, an egg of light, and it was thought I could hold the life force itself in my hands. Laura Kasischke

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside. Megan Shepherd

Sunny - If you can explain yourself before someone kicks your ass, count your blessings and give some thought to going back to the priesthood. Nick - I would, but now-a-days that vow of chastity might be a problem. J.A. Dennam

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it. Marie Rutkoski

Dragons are fire made flesh. George R.r. Martin

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up. Jonathan Darman

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh. V.C. Andrews

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh. Anthony Liccione

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies. W.H.D. Rouse

Meltwater (from the book Blue Bridge)Up here. A face Loses its lines I look to see The colour of your eyes …They have turned To water. I lean forward To catch The scent of your hair —All I smell is heather. I touch your hand And all I feel is earth and stones. There is nothing left But the hillside’s breast Your flesh and bones Have vanished. Jay Woodman

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones. Dan Wells

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark. Anthony Liccione

So bloody massacre, so nasty, so brutal he just starts to eat alive people flesh. Deyth Banger

A man who does not know God lives guided by the desires of his flesh. Sunday Adelaja

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven. Lorenzo Scupoli

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me. David Burr Gerrard

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know. Julie Kagawa

And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper. Bram Stoker