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.

  Dream, Peace, One Day

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Gods Will

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• And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Fluency, Alms

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Identity, Spirit

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• In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Men, Spirit

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• A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wounds And Scars, Self Injury, Made

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.10, Emblem Editions

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  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

  Inspirational, Baby, Race

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• Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, War, Community Living

  Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Art is science in the flesh.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

  Paul the Apostle

  Lust, Galatians, Spirit

  Saint Paul (the Apostle), Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade (1848). “Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections”, p.339

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• 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, Science, Perception

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• 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

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Soul, Politics

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

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• 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

  Individuality, Suffering, Spirit

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

  Aesop

  Sticks, Bones

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, World, Rotting

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Blood, Theatre

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• A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

  Thomas Gold Appleton

  Men, Boston, Wind

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

  John Buchan

  Years, Shining, Robes

  John Buchan (1912). “The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies”

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• 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

  Jesus, Son, People

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• 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

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

  Amy Levy

  Husband, Alaska, Blood

  Amy Levy (1889). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”

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• Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Blood, Democracy, Pieces

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