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

Charles Stanley

They need to flesh out more details.

Peter Fitzgerald

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

Wendell Berry

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

Pat Benatar

All flesh is grass.

Bible

She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.

Colin Anderson

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Cliff Fadiman

I don't think anybody knew that you could go in that water with a cut and you can be eaten up by flesh-eating bacteria and die.

Friederike Boszko

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Olivier Messiaen

Goodness is never one with the minds of these two: one who wields a weapon and one who feasts on a creature's flesh.

The Tirukural

Only individual questioning can flesh out whether the panel is so predisposed against the defendants.

David Berg

How can he practice true compassion Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?

The Tirukural

It's a flesh-and-blood animal that just has not been discovered yet. And I think we're getting closer and closer and closer.

Daryl G. Colyer

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Claude Debussy

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh.

James Douglas

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Lee Strasberg

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Jerry Hall

Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.

The Tirukural

Gophers will take an apricot's pit and leave the flesh.

Roy Ellis

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.

Frank Herbert

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

We're trying to flesh out what occurred there.

Terry Clawson

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich von Schiller

FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.

Ambrose Bierce

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

He only weighed 78 pounds when he got here. ... The stench of burned flesh coming from his ears was terrible.

Nicole Sharpe

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

Stephane Mallarme

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Bible

Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!

Francis Beaumont

These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I never saw any human flesh.

Idi Amin

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.

Judith Thurman

The flesh is strong, my spirit's stronger.

Indigo Girls