Flesh famous quotes

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

#Men #May #Flesh

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Flesh #Conscience

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Overcoming #Flesh

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
-- Alan Jackson

#Love #Strong #Flesh

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
-- Alan Moore

#Blood #Ideas #Flesh

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
-- Alan Moore

#Ideas #Flesh #Mask

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Heart #Poetry #Flesh

...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

#Animal #Purpose #Flesh

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

#Attachment #Saint #Flesh

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

#New York #Smell #Flesh

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

#Water #Baptism #Flesh

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
-- Amy Tan

#Pain #Flesh #Young

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

#Mother #Skins #Flesh

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

#Promise #Tears #Flesh

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

#Flesh #Taste #Carnivores

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
-- Anna Paquin

#Girl #Flesh #Scared

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Love #Flesh #Bones

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

#Vocabulary #Earth #Flesh

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

#Angel #Flesh #Sparks

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Flesh

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
-- Audre Lorde

#Mouths #Shapes #Flesh

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
-- Barbara Block

#Sharks #People #Flesh

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

#Ease #Flesh #Longing

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Love #Flesh #Vegetarian

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
-- Benny Hinn

#Jesus #Example #Flesh

What do yo think human flesh tastes like?
-- Bill Kaulitz

#Thinking #Flesh #Taste

We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
-- Billy Idol

#Sex #Flesh #Want

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.

#Men #Omnipotence #Flesh

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

#Believe #Flesh #Spirit

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
-- Brennan Manning

#Heart #Flesh #Stones

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.
-- Brigham Young

#Father #Men #Flesh

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
-- Bryan Adams

#Rotting #Flesh #Vegan

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.
-- Charles Dickens

#Boys #Want #Flesh

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
-- Charles Stanley

#Prayer #Flesh #Gods Will

If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?
-- Claude Cahun

#Flesh #Vibrations #Insensitive

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.
-- Claudia Rankine

#Past #World #Flesh

The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?
-- Claudia Rankine

#Thinking #Past #Flesh

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
-- Clifton Fadiman

#Writing #Mind #Flesh

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
-- Constance Hale

#Shapes #Flesh #Bones

What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Smoking #Soul #Flesh

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
-- Dambudzo Marechera

#Men #Generations #Flesh

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
-- David Mitchell

#Flesh #Spirit #Weak

How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!
-- David Wilkerson

#Fall #Men #Flesh

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.
-- Del Howison

#Dream #Cutting #Flesh

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
-- Denise Levertov

#Dream #Noble #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.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Struggle #Done #Flesh

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
-- Djuna Barnes

#Flesh #Bones #Ache

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.
-- Dominic Monaghan

#Alive #Flesh #Way

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

#Burning #Body #Flesh

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.
-- Ebenezer Elliott

#Soul #May #Flesh

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

#Unity #Flesh #Saws

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
-- Edmund Waller

#Blood #Vices #Flesh

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
-- Edna Ferber

#Flesh #Sae #Cry

So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.
-- Elijah

#Mother #Blood #Flesh

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Body #Flesh #Way

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#Mind #Flesh #Results

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
-- Enoch

#Flesh #Judgment #Holy

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Giving #Flesh #Mud

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Flesh #Celibacy #Deeper

The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
-- F.B. Meyer

#Lust #Flesh #Spirit

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
-- Florenz Ziegfeld

#Beauty #World #Flesh

I’m the same weight now as I’ve always been-even before having children-but I have to say there’s been a redistribution of the flesh!
-- Francesca Annis

#Children #Weight #Flesh

This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.
-- Francois Mauriac

#Blood #Flesh #Sun

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

#Father #Men #Flesh

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
-- Frank Herbert

#Men #Water #Flesh

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
-- Gabrielle Roth

#Divorce #Expression #Flesh

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Jobs #Acting #Flesh

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy
-- Gary L. Francione

#Flesh #Global Warming #Should

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
-- Geoffrey Beene

#Fashion #Flesh #Too Much

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

#Grief #Heart #Flesh

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
-- George Orwell

#Blood #Enemy #Flesh

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

#Kings #Men #Flesh

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Knives #Soul #Flesh

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.
-- Glen Duncan

#Hands #Moved On #Flesh

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.
-- Greg Bear

#Blood #Forever #Flesh

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Beautiful #Blessed #Flesh

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.
-- Greta Garbo

#Cinema #Flesh #Faces

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
-- Ha Jin

#Dog #Heart #Flesh

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
-- Harvey Cushing

#Flesh #Heirs #Ultimate

... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about it.
-- Heber C. Kimball

#Jesus #Father #Flesh

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
-- Helen and Scott Nearing

#Vegetarianism #May #Flesh

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?
-- Helen Waddell

#Mind #Desire #Flesh

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Blood #Flesh #Bones

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Heart #Soul #Flesh

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
-- Herrick Johnson

#Wickedness #Flesh #Christ

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Heart #Giving #Flesh

One's appreciation of nature is never more acuet than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.
-- Howard Evans

#Appreciation #Nature #Flesh

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
-- Idi Amin

#Leader #Flesh #Taste

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
-- Ingmar Bergman

#Writing #Skeletons #Flesh

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
-- Ingrid Bergman

#Movie #Gentleman #Flesh

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.
-- Ingrid Newkirk

#Animal #Two #Flesh

Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
-- Isaac Marion

#Zombie #Teeth #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

#Order #Doctrine #Flesh

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom #Mind #Flesh

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
-- Jackson Katz

#Media #Blood #Flesh

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
-- Jacqueline Carey

#Pain #Heart #Flesh

Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.
-- Jefferson Bass

#Flesh #Remember #Bones

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.
-- Jenny Saville

#Flesh #Want #Narrative

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
-- Jentezen Franklin

#Fasting #Flesh #Spirit

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.
-- Jerry Hall

#Ladders #Flesh #Shows