Best worship & flesh Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.”

Ifs Christian Desire Bears Creatures Worship Accounts Creator Neighbor Flesh Orthodox Provision Grudge Transitory

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.”

Source: The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative

“Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.”

Men Wells Persons Two Limits Worship Bounds Deny Flesh Guilty Savior Heresy Inseparable Blasphemy

Book:The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

Source: The History of the Christian Church (Complete)

“Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?”

People Men Giving Should Different Law Asks Taught Worship Jew Complaining Flesh Chosen Command Heresy Reap Crucifixion Different Religions

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.”

World Way Has Beens Age Today Jesus Christ Church Memories Worship Jesus Christ Flesh Prophet Friday Crucifixion Good Friday

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.”

Heart Desire Difficult Attitude Accepting Worship Crosses Affection Flesh Circumcision

Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.”

Body Father Jesus Christ Church Son Holy Eternal Worship Jesus Christ Saint Missions Flesh Ghost Latter Literal Holy Ghost Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Book:Come unto Christ

Source: Come unto Christ

“In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.”

Men Matter Body Form Christianity Worship Sake Creator Flesh Former

Author:John of Damascus

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