Quotes about Flesh
The end and design of all that is written in Scripture is to call us back from the spirit of Satan, the flesh, and the world, to full dependence on and obedience to the Spirit of God.
- Andrew Murray
In human flesh man was to be the embodiment and fulfillment of God's desires.
- Andrew Murray
The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible.
- Andrew Murray
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." . . . "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." John 6:63, 68 (NKJV)
- Andrew Murray
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
- John Calvin
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
- John Calvin
because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own image has been transformed into flesh.
- John Calvin
But he immediately adds another clause, to teach us, that if anything in us tends to life, it is what the Spirit produces; for no spark of life proceeds from our flesh.
- John Calvin
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
- Wendell Berry
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
- Martin Luther
Soul is more bruisable than flesh, and Juila was wounded in every fiber of her spirit.
- Edith Wharton
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
- St. Basil