Quotes About Body

This life is first hid with Christ, because it is a disembodied life; at the last day it will become manifest through union with the eschatological body.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

If I was not able to control my social world I could at least begin to coordinate the movement of my own body.

Our bodies are our temples. They should have a little more respect for themselves than that." "You know, I could have sworn I saw you shoveling Cheetos into your temple last week." "Oh, but I'm pretty sure those were nonfat," Kaylee piped up. Oh brother.

Not fat, just not anorexic. She's soft in all the right places.

Midnight. The witching hour, some say. Since it was 12:07 A.M. and I was standing over a dead body, I had to agree.

The darling man was sharing his body heat, reminding her of a beloved hero in a Julie Garwood novel.

His distinguishing thirty-two characteristics And the eighty different attractive features seem to be visible, Yet in reality, his form is neither with nor without features. All visible features are transcended. Without having features His body has features. This is also true of the features Of the bodies of all living beings.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

Vale stalked back in with a basin of water and some bandages. "Far be it from me to criticize," he said, "but setting the afflicted body part on fire is not a usual form of treatment for an injured hand. Though I hear that milk is high in calcium.

There may be involuntary movements or shaking of the body;

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

The time seems right for revisiting D'Arcy Thompson's challenge: "How far even then mathematics will suffice to describe, and physics to explain, the fabric of the body, no man can foresee. It may be that all the laws of energy, and all the properties of matter, all . . . chemistry . . . are as powerless to explain the body as they are impotent to comprehend the soul. For my part, I think it is not so.

From arrogance grow many branches from which evils come, so many as may cause the loss of soul and body, honor and wealth.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Your body is a hyacinth, Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers. Our silence is a black cavern, From which a soft animal steps at times And slowly lowers heavy eyelids. On your temples black dew drips, The last gold of expired stars

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Through these observations I began to see her as less of a goddess and more of a person. She was funny, thoughtful, at times awkward. She was, in fact, someone not so different from me: a human being trapped inside a teenager's body, waiting for the world to begin.

Fullness" (pl?r?ma) has two different meanings. Some take it to mean that the church completes Christ — fills him up. However, it is easier to take it to mean that the church as the body of Christ is filled with his life and power,54 which are to work through Christ in the world. The church is a "partaker of all that He owns and is for the purpose of continuing his work."55

The baptism with the Spirit is the act of the Holy Spirit joining together into a spiritual unity people of diverse racial extractions and diverse social backgrounds so that they form the body of Christ — the ekkl?sia.