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“Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”

Heart Mean Soul Sometimes Body Remember Spirit Spirituality Secret Draws Strive Flesh Senses Strife

Author:Al-Ghazali

“We are going to have bodies like Jesus did after He was resurrected. Each of us is going to have a new eternal, glorified body. It will actually be constructed as we are now, of flesh and bones - but eternal flesh and bones, incorruptible, immortal flesh and bones. It's going to be material, natural, recognizable, seeable and feelable.”

Body Jesus Natural Materials Eternal Bones Flesh Heavenly Immortal

Author:David Berg

“It looks like half the enjoyment is just having Heaven in our hearts and Heaven in our Homes, feeling Heaven in our bodies in the thrilling love and love-making that we have here and now on Earth in those ecstatic orgasms of the Spirit and the flesh, but also looking forward to Heaven to come!”

Looks Heart Feelings Home Body Earth Spirit Heaven Half And Love Flesh Enjoyment Heavenly Looking Forward Thrilling Here And Now Ecstatic Love Making

Author:David Berg

“Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Body Bigs Happens Faces Dies Courses Natural Differences Attitude Our Lives Easier Bounds Flesh Sooner Or Later Avoiding Natural Death

Book:The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

Source: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

“When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.”

Needs Should Humans Made Feelings Body Animal Bird Sacred Flesh Human Body

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.”

Heart Body Seems Eye Young Life Is Order Existence Taken Saws Car Objects Understood Shoes Bones Flesh Miles Faithful Pairs Pens Cosmic Bike Pair Of Shoes Good Faith Nucleus Young At Heart

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.”

Ends Reason Facts Body Turns Jesus Sacrifice Betrayal Flesh Saving Obedience Champion Disciple Cursed Envied Judas

Author:Craig A. Evans

“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”

“What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.”

Body Christian Spirit Christ Blood Drink Holy Mark Died Rose Flesh Bread Spots Cups Judgement Perpetual Remembrance Sacraments Sanctification Body Of Christ Blameless Defilement

Author:Saint Basil

“The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.”

Feels Body Seems Eye Pleasure Passionate Flesh Explanation Heat Sunshine Exposed Clothings Entering Radiant Ecstatic Campfire

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!”

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Author:Pythagoras

“The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.”

Men Body Stuff Blood Masters Slave Bones Flesh Tyranny Flesh And Blood Vortex Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.”

Men Mind Body Sweet Flesh Lust Poison Heroic Pernicious Pestilence Sweet Poison

Book:Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

Source: Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

“To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned”

Heart Soul Body Desire Flesh

Author:Frank Herbert

“The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.”

May Two Body Found Christ Church Son Agree Unity Communicate Flesh Scripture Dissent Brides Bridegroom

Author:Saint Augustine

“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.”

Men May Soul Use Body Failing Mere Flesh Pleasant Poison

Book:True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc

Source: True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc

“Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.”

Should Body Language Flesh Garments

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.”

May Real Self Body Care Spirit Culture Born Devil Excuse Flesh Confusion Feminine Museums Fierce Magnificent Routes Masculine Vessel Tourists Will Power Cathedrals Dieting Skyscraper

Author:Marion Woodman

“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”

Men World Way Humans Made Body Eye Spirit Evil Individual Natural Effort Wall Diversity Patterns Accomplish Flesh Accomplished Barriers Mutual Shattered

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.”

Knows Mind Humans Wells Heart Soul Body Earth Women Known Possibility Kissing Empty Harmony Instruments Silent Flesh Adore Masterpiece Strain Crave Splendid Drains Eloquent

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.”

Ifs Knows Hard Reason Enough Use Body Chance Animal Know How Pieces Creatures Bird Balls Flesh Hunting One Piece Squirrels

Author:James F. Cooper

“In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.”

Dream Body Seems Dies Known Thousand Mouths Flesh Temptation Chocolate Bites Texture Gluttony Culmination Devouring Fluttering Gorges

Book:Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.”

Thinking Humans Two Body Song Space Fields Bones Flesh Obsessed Visuals Two Things Countryside Anatomy Open Spaces

Author:Ellie Goulding

“An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.”

Body Seems Used Spirit Sex Forget Despair Sacred Flesh Treasure Meaningless Cynicism Sacraments Love Making Acts Of Love

Book:Recovering: A Journal

Source: Recovering: A Journal

“What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?”

Matter Body Would Be Journey Return Flesh Dust Ripple

Author:Gail Godwin

“Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.”

Body Lessons Flesh

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.”

Men Needs Feels Body Eye Too Much Weight Males Flesh Substance Slim Why Me

Book:... and the wife ran away

Source: ... and the wife ran away

“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

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Book:Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

Source: Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”

Men Body Clothes Flesh Physicians Patches Diseased Cobblers

Book:The Lover's Melancholy

Source: The Lover's Melancholy

“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”

Knows Men Humans Doe Body Cost Flesh Superiors Human Body

Author:Olive Schreiner

“The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.”

Soul Body Spiritual Natural Flesh

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.”

Looks Matter Body Eye Age Asks Grows Dying Disease Flesh Surrender Old Age Exhausted

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”

May Littles Feelings Body Remember Water Memories Flow Filled Fingers Bones Flesh Cells Streams Touched Joints Sponges

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes