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• Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

  John Knox

  Lying, Flattered

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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Results, Torment

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• God himself took this human flesh upon him.

  William Barclay

  Humans

  William Barclay (2001). “Many Witnesses, One Lord”, p.20, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

  Dorothy Day

  Philosophy, Sublime, Stronger

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• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Lust, Mind

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• 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

  Respect, Men, Enough

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

  Benny Hinn

  God, Jesus, Example

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• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Writing, Skeletons, Scripts

  The New York Times, January 22, 1978.

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

  Robert Herrick

  Home, House, Soul

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• 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, Longing, Hunger

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

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

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Children, Devil, Agents

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

  Jerry Hall

  Ladders, Shows, Higher

  "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.

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• 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.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Art, War, Men

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• I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

  Naima Adedapo

  Names, Body, Spirit

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• Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

  Bill Moyers

  Dream, Fighting, Blood

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• 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, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

  Paul Washer

  Arms, Power Of God

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• When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

  Willa Cather

  Eye, Spirit

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Kids, Goal, Looks

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 17, 2014

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• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Daggers, Consciousness, Conscious

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Mask, Vendetta

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• She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.

  Rachel Klein

  Dream, Wall, Fear

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blood, Bones, Sensuality

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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