Quotes about Body
What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.
— Frank Herbert
Believers are discovering the experience of the body of Christ and what it means to gather under the headship of Jesus.
— Frank Viola
Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
— Tullian Tchividjian
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
— Samuel Beckett
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
— Khalil Gibran
Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.
— Amos Oz
It is evident everywhere that Paul felt he was a member of a body - a body on which he was dependent for sympathy and cooperation. He counted on the prayers of these churches to gain for himself what otherwise might not be given. To him the prayers of the church were as real a factor in the work of the kingdom as the power of God.
— Andrew Murray
Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.
— Andrew Murray
ADVENTINE (ADVE'NTINE) adj.[from advenio, adventum.]Adventitious; that which is extrinsically added; that which comes from outward causes: a word scarcely in use. As for the peregrine heat, it is thus far true, that, if the proportion of the adventine heat be greatly predominant to the natural heat and spirits of the body, it tendeth to dissolution or notable alteration.Bacon'sNatural History,No 836.
— Samuel Johnson
She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness of her body made it most sumptuous.Sidney.3. To
— Samuel Johnson
In order that Christ's body might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman. In order that His Godhead might be made clear, He was born of a virgin.
— Scott Hahn
In communion with Christ, you and I are members of his body, his Church, together with our fellow Christians
— Scott Hahn