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“That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.”

Mind Wells May Said Body Together United Perfection Unions Ties Links Alliances Matrimony

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”

“The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.”

World Body Religion Perfection Obedience Imitation Sovereign Declaration True Religion

Book:.) (1853).

Source: .) (1853).

“Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul”

Ifs Men Soul Body Light Truth Is Perfection Visible

Author:Pythagoras

“[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.”

Body Reality Passion Christ Sacrifice Blood Perfection Symbols Appropriate Sacraments Covenant

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.”

World Humans Body Spiritual Life Is Humanity Healing Perfection Sick Kingdoms Oneness Remedy Illumination Attainment Quickening Spiritual Perfection

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.”

Needs May Two Body Earth Share Worship Perfection Spares Transparent Blunders Mirth Her Smile

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”

Humans Two Body Found Principles Taken Figures Holy Projects Perfection Circles Proportion Consideration Temples Squares Construction Principal Human Body

Author:Luca Pacioli

“First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.”

Men Firsts Believe May Body Age Lasts Form Passion Development Perfection Thirds Exalted Purification Enlargement

Author:B. H. Roberts

“While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.”

Men Body Individual Religious Animal Moral Creation Higher Intellectual Perfection Intelligent Responsible Senses Superiors Faculty Denied Exhibits Combining Individual Power

Author:George Combe