Quotes about Body
He did not blame her; he blamed nothing, nobody; he saw the truth. He saw the dun-colored race of waters and the blank shore. But life is vigorous; the body lives, and the body, no doubt, dictated the reflection, which now urged him to movement, that one may cast away the forms of human beings, and yet retain the passion which seemed inseparable from their existence in the flesh.
— Virginia Woolf
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!
— Charles Dickens
Healing comes to the soul through the power of connection. Our connection with God is our connection to healing—spirit, soul, and body
— Gregory Dickow
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
— Michael Horton
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the body is tremendous strength, in the mind is brilliant potential, in the heart is extraordinary influence, and in the soul is remarkable power.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Love conquers the body by embracing it, conquers the mind by massaging it, conquers the heart by kissing it, and conquers the soul by marrying it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
— Ezra Taft Benson
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
And I put it as a question to those, who make a study of mankind, whether REPRESENTATION AND ELECTION is not too great a power for one and the same body of men to possess? When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue is not hereditary.
— Thomas Paine
Affliction only reaches the body, but sin goes further: it poisons the fancy, disorders the affections. Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive. Affliction can but take away the life; sin takes away the soul.
— Thomas Watson