Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light."
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Flesh
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Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh."
Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit."
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"Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it."
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"The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry."
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"Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll."
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"I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead."
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"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone."
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"All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh."
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"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
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"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
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"The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh."
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"The entire Godhead, the Triune God, became flesh."
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"There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives."
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"A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
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"She was made of flesh and eyelashes."
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"We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil told us to do. For those of us that have been freed by Jesus, we don't have to be robots."
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"Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty."
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"One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen."
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"We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil."
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"Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil."
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"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
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"That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust."
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