Flesh Quotes

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Paul Klee

Work, Lies, Bit

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
Tony Parsons

Living, Ugly, Large

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Joseph Ratzinger

God, Death, Words

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.
James MacArthur

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
Tim LaHaye

God, Human, Jesus

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick

Home, Soul, Poor

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
John Chrysostom

Nature, Men, Human

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
Lynn Johnston

Time, Long, Person

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
Uwe Boll

Great, Character, Game

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Simon Callow

Care, Someone, Cannot

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton

Down, Soul, Put

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick

Long, Through, Bite

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Jane Grey

Put, Broken, Wine

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Money, Child, Devil

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Peter Shaffer

Play, Making, Word

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

Work, Nothing, After

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
John Buchan

God, Through, Thin

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt

Life, Far, State

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
Mel Gibson

Character, Passion, Mean

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
Steve Albini

Dating, Crazy, Woman

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian

Mind, Control, Thoughts

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
George Takei

Family, Good, Father

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.
DMX

Pain, Learned, Minds

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
Joseph de Maistre

Enough, Creep, Scoundrel

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
Thomas Keneally

Power, Made, Again

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
David Low

Men, Give, Another

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
John Dos Passos

Society, Ugly, Possible

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen

Life, Power, Spiritual

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
Pat Benatar

Love, Pay, Bones

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