Sins Of The Flesh Quotes

• 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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• Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

  Saint Remigius

  Men, Childhood, Adults

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• 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

  Christian, Divine Order, Flesh

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• The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Forgiving

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.47, Multnomah

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• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Unhappy, Flesh

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Flesh, Want

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.108, Penguin

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• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Physicians, Flesh

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.171, Wordsworth Editions

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• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Men, Animal

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• I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Scare Tactics, Flesh

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.223, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  World, Flesh, Spirit

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

  Muriel Spark

  Jealousy, Giving, Affliction

  Muriel Spark (2016). “The Finishing School”, p.46, Canongate Books

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