Flesh, blood, bone–the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are...

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

…and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

We don’t have anything up our sleeve ready to go. There’s a lot to flesh out. But we want to at least start the discussion.

Suddenly, Tara’s accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school’s various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school’s history. She was like a...

Too much nudity is a turn off. Especially if all that flesh is on one person.

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the...

The act of tattooing one’s skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

The trouble with being an angel on Earth was that he was still a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. His lungs clamored without the draw of air. And for this woman, the only one...

just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I’dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on...

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

My thoughts of you are a rainbow in splashing ocean waves…appearing…disappearing in sacred depths of skies the grasps of mine reach to the highest… Will you, ah, long for kissing me tonight? so I could...

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to...

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need...

The flesh,’ as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The ‘carnal’ spirit is the one that devours things for itself and refuses to make them...

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

Blood is everywhere..Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.

It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Our flesh is a gift of laughter.

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

Wanaume hupenda nyama kwenye mifupa.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not...

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

The flesh covers the bones, and makes the spirit naked.

I’ve got a flesh-colored tattoo. I drew it myself. You should see it sometime, if only you could see it (it’s invisible).

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world...