Quotes About Body

For Paul, the will of God is known in essence in the obedient death of Jesus. In concrete and specific ways, however, God's will is known only when one offers oneself and one's body daily as a living sacrifice to one's rightful Lord:

Faith, therefore, is a liberation that is also an incorporation, specifically an incorporation into Christ the new lord, and into his body.

The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

And those of us with a strong burden for the purity of the Body must remember something essential: Jesus, not sin, must be our emphasis! Preachers who major on sin and minor on Jesus are like a bridegroom who takes his eyes off his precious bride as she walks down the aisle and focuses instead on a fly on her gown. We need to stay centered on our Savior and Lord!

Consciously connected breathing is one of the most efficient and accessible means for deliberate re-entry into the physical body.

Your mind lives in fear and regret but your body can only live right now, in this moment. So, take some deep breaths and live in your body. It's a safer place to be than in your head.

drink only enough to satisfy your thirst. Appropriate here is Tim Noakes' conclusion in his book Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (page 353): "Your body will tell you what it needs if you just listen.

Stay hydrated but do not flush the electrolytes from your body by excessive drinking. You should drink only enough water to maintain the same, normal output of urine you normally experience.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

The trauma of discovering her body, unmoving in the brackish water of the bathtub, had aged him ten years.

Yet for Glass the fort did not mark a finish line to cross with elation, but rather a starting line to cross with resolve. With new equipment and his increasingly healthy body, he now had advantages that he had lacked in the past six weeks. Still, his goal lay far away.

the most effective method for self-treatment of tension-related ailments

When we have no hope for healing, our minds and bodies react in accordance with our thoughts and feelings.

These three tools of light, energy, and mass by which the Divine geometer constructs the cosmos and by which the symbolic geometer approximates archetypal patterns are also mirrored in us. What scientists call "light, energy, and mass" are the traditional "spirit, soul, and body" described by Plutarch as nous (divine intellect), psyche (soul), and soma (body).

Never let an old person live in your body.

From what I've been told, there are several growth phases in a natural sleep cycle. Studies have shown that at 1:30 or 2 a.m., kids begin to secrete the growth hormone," he says. "If somebody interrupts that secretion cycle to get you up to train at 5 in the morning throughout your childhood, what does that do to your body?

Peak performance in most sports occurs in late afternoon and early evening, when body temperature reaches its daily high. Respect for this body rhythm may decrease your likelihood of injuries,

The body, you know, is ninety percent water, and there are those who will tell you that life is only a device which water employs to move itself about.

The pattern that began to take shape in the last chapter continues, and its message becomes increasingly clear—the deeper and more emotionally charged our beliefs, the greater the changes we can make in both our bodies and reality itself.

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.

he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),

I'm numb from all this scraping, but for once I'm glad I've got this big rump to protect myself from the ground. This would hurt a lot more if I were one of those bony, rail-thin, smoked-for-a-hundred-years old crones. But then, if I was one of them, I could probably stand up.