{"quotes":[{"text":"For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.","author":"Jonathan Darman","tags":["addiction","appetite","flesh","idolatry"],"id":7900,"author_id":"Jonathan+Darman"},{"text":"Our flesh is a gift of laughter.","author":"Harley King","tags":["flesh","gift","humor","laughter"],"id":11315,"author_id":"Harley+King"},{"text":"The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.","author":"Nikos Kazantzakis","tags":["flesh","soul","struggle"],"id":12129,"author_id":"Nikos+Kazantzakis"},{"text":"Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.","author":"Lynn Hubbard","tags":["flesh","loved-ones","spirit"],"id":16540,"author_id":"Lynn+Hubbard"},{"text":"The ego hates losing – even to God.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["flesh","selfishness","surrender"],"id":21599,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blood","cannibalism","canny","clever","cleverness","flesh","knowledge","learning","man-eater","michael-bassey-johnson","prudence","sagacity","sage","sensibility","shrewd","wisdom"],"id":30789,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.","author":"Rosaria Champagne Butterfield","tags":["depravity","flesh","mistakes","sin"],"id":33205,"author_id":"Rosaria+Champagne+Butterfield"},{"text":"Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.","author":"David Burr Gerrard","tags":["corpse","flesh","lover"],"id":40989,"author_id":"David+Burr+Gerrard"},{"text":"Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you?","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["at","be","bunch","could","creation","fails","feel","flesh","full","god","he","it","looks","man","missing","only","out","purpose","satisfied","see","self","think","what","when","with","you"],"id":45437,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["becoming-a-woman","bones","brain","flesh","mature","maturity","mountains","older","teens","wisdom"],"id":54658,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":104,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}