Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
- John Donne
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
- Roger Williams
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
- William Law
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.