Sins Of The Flesh Quotes by Umberto Eco, Leslie Marmon Silko, Muriel Spark, Thomas Aquinas, Brennan Manning, Saint Remigius and many others.
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
the material world and the flesh are only temporary – there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!
Jealousy … is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn’t ever want enough years on me to know it.
