Flesh Quotes

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Made, Dream

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Soul, Belief

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

Death, Mind, Hard

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.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Nature, God

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo

Night, Eyes, Strange

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo

Unknown, Surface

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

Great, Shall, Poem

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

Mind, Understand, Said

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler

Money, Enemy, Long

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

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
E. Stanley Jones

God, Heart, Blood

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

Children, Made, Show

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius

Pain, Suffering, Seems

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.
Liam Neeson

Human, Makes, Face

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Great, True

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann Hesse

Made, Whole, Spirit

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

Travel, Hard, Heaven

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

True, Children, Parents

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Words, Soul

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
Jessica Savitch

Blood, Invisible, Press

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
Norman Mailer

America, Here, Few

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
Peter Tosh

Mean, Cannot, Leave

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran

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

Mind, Result, Inflicts

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Benjamin Carson

Nature, Spiritual, Mind

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

Family, Live, Face

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
Carlos Santana

Spiritual, Two, Flower

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery

Long, Made, Before

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen

Heart, Human, Soul

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
Benjamin Carson

Faith, Mind, Why

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