Quotes About Body

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic: and certainly to a kingdom or state, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Gradually a change came over Willoughby. It showed itself first in a distinct gain of strength that overjoyed her. All his life, in the sodden midlands and in the clearer cold of Central Europe, Willoughby's body had simply struggled for existence; whatever vitality he possessed had been poured out daily to nourish the pale, exotic flower of his music. In this blander climate, like a starved plant that rejoices in a genial soil, the musician became a man.

Appearances are deceiving when it comes to the Holy Eucharist. It looks like the bread of Jesus' time, tastes like unleavened bread, smells and feels like bread but it's not bread. It's the body and blood, human soul and divine nature of Jesus of Nazareth, risen from the dead.

Christian freedom was an inner condition of the spirit, and not an external condition of the body.

John 6 is one of the most theologically complex chapters in the Gospel. There is deep reflection on Jewish liturgical traditions and on many biblical themes: the tree of life in Eden, the manna in the wilderness, Wisdom's invitation to share in her food. These Old Testament realities help us to understand Jesus and the gift of his body and blood on the cross and in the Eucharist.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.

Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

When you switch the lens and heal your mind of negativity, it actually helps heal your body of exhaustion, aches, and pains.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

To be conscious and enlightened, Spirit must fill our bodies. Trance Dancing is an invitation to Spirit to embody us. When Spirit accepts, we dance from the inside out.

McTeague's mind was as his body, heavy, slow to act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

On the one hand our body is our temple, but on the other we despise it for being mere machinery. We've become accustomed to valuing mind over body. We feel nothing but contempt for the factors relating to our physical survival.

Dad and I were sitting in Falwell's study just after Dad spoke at Jerry's church. (Later I preached there, too, endorsed Falwell, and also gave a talk to the whole student body at Falwell's college.) Out of the blue, Jerry brought up the gay issue. Dad said something about it being complicated, and Jerry replied: "If I had a dog that did what they do, I'd shoot him!" The

Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul.

From the human perspective, the purpose of the church meeting is mutual edification. But from God's perspective, the purpose of the gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one's body is to express the life that's within it.)

Human beings evolved to reverberate with the emotional states of others, to the point that we internalize, mostly via our bodies, what is going on with them. This is social connectivity at its best, the glue of all animal and human societies, which guarantees supportive and comforting company.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.

Your knowledge belongs to your spirit. Your wealth belongs to your body.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Faces are all important. Without faces it would be impossible to identify our friends. If we had to recognize people by their bodies, we could only tell men from women. With career women, in many cases this would be impossible.