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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. — Lady Gaga

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. — Alice Hoffman

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3). — A.W. Tozer

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature. — Elena Ferrante

Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children. — Johnny Hunt

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. — John Heywood

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. — Brigham Young

For which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh', — Leo Tolstoy

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes. — Frank Herbert

A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself. — Dan B. Allender

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh. — Felix Wantang

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free. — Mahatma Gandhi

Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours. — John Vianney

A voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home — Adriana Koulias

When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh. — Matthew Donnelly

Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh — Baris Gencel

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye

Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac

Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another. — Pope Clement I

The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own. — Melanie Tem

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord. — Joyce Meyer

The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh. — Caroline Kettlewell

Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me. — Margot Kidder

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh. — Ezra Taft Benson

Yoooou!" she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh! — J.K. Rowling

The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh. — Elif Shafak

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things. — Sun Tzu

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters. — Virchand Gandhi

What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. — John Lasseter

Success in relationships takes death to the flesh. Singles stop begging for what you won't die for and couples start dying so your marriage can live. — Hope D. Blackwell

then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English — Terry Deary

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her. — Sarah MacLean

If the spirit lusts against the flesh, work so that you can gain the victory over the flesh — Sunday Adelaja

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into
the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous. — Sathya Sai Baba

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit. — Friedrich Muller

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. — Robert Galbraith

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. — Francis Of Assisi

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert

You can look after this knight's soul, Father. The sins of the flesh though - they're all mine. — Mark Lawrence

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control. — Margaret Atwood

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have. — Jaggi Vasudev

It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again ... yet demon spirit bids to laugh — Alan Grant

There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day. — Jennifer Niven

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. — C.S. Lewis

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh. — Clarence Jordan

Z the Word a became flesh and b dwelt among us, c and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of d grace and e truth. — Anonymous

In ecstasy, it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart. — Dean Koontz

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. — Mignon McLaughlin

Something wicked flashed in the depth of his eyes before his lip curved into a smile. "Not every day you get to meet Death in the flesh. — Michelle Gross

Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. — Anne Carson

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. — Anonymous

Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh ... — John Of The Cross

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! — William Shakespeare

For if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep. — Billy Graham

And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh... but they say he no longer dreams. — C.M. Hayden

I'm used to everything digital - the pictures, the avatars of the person, the profiles - so when I get to see someone in the flesh, it's really nice. — Michelle Phan

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ... ; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love. — Ignatius Of Antioch

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth. — Ken Goldberg

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. — Adam Smith

Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis. — Peter Watts

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. — Victor Hugo

She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl. — Robert Penn Warren

We must obey the will of God and not our flesh — Sunday Adelaja

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. — Neil Gaiman

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion. — Frank Herbert

In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil. — Anne Rice

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. — Thomas Gold Appleton

We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister — Cheri Paris Edwards

This flesh I have lived in,
These thoughts I have lived with
Have befouled the sanctity of 'this' soul!
Forgive me Hashem! — L.D.R.

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. — Isaac Of Nineveh

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh. — Whitney Otto

Blood shed stands, therefore, not for the release of life from the burden of the flesh, but for the bringing to an end of life in the flesh. — Alan Stibbs

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. — Yukio Mishima

It is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh. — Rebecca West

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter

Even in extreme conditions, we should not act according to the flesh, for it lusts against the spirit — Sunday Adelaja

He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her. — Nicki Elson

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection. — Christine Ebersole

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man. — Emma Goldman

The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups. — Dennis Vickers

She screamed like a thousand birds were picking at her flesh. She screamed like the palace was burning down around her. — Marissa Meyer

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. — Elbert Hubbard

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel

They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood — William Golding

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane. — Brian McGreevy

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars. — Henry Miller

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world. — Orson Scott Card

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh. — Nicolas Poussin

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. — Robert Browning

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. — F.B. Meyer

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim. — Henry De Montherlant