#flesh

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.' ↗

— Philip Schaff

#among #became #christ #divine #dwells

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#boston #crew #even #flesh #gained

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#as far as #concerned #does #far #flesh

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#am #face #flesh #i #i am

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. ↗

— Ma Jian

#flesh #mind #only #thoughts #tyrannies

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ↗

— Paul Klee

#distance #does #flesh #garden #hat

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#crucified #each #flesh #individual #made

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#god #gratifies #never #something #tell

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get