The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
Long live the new flesh.
Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.
Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!
kind of flesh colored leather stockings more than boots.
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.