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If it is a great thing to rule over bodies, it is even greater to rule over souls.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

—Socrates

Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.

—John Wesley

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.

Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.

With these means, man can attain perfection.

—Plato

Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

While I continue in the body, I shall never be perfect. But O what room is there for growth in grace, what space for advancement.

—William Wilberforce

If a person understands his life is in his soul and not his body, you can put him in chains or lock him in iron locks and he’ll still remain free.

—Leo Tolstoy

The more a person lives for his soul rather than his body, the more he feels his unity with all living beings.

—Leo Tolstoy

His dead body was quickened.

The silent heart began again to beat.

Through the stagnant canals of the veins the life-flood began to circulate.

Charles Spurgeon

Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.

—John Wesley

“The resurrection blessing is to be perfected by-and-by at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour, for then our bodies shall rise again, if we fall asleep before his coming.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Working on freeing your soul from your body in order to make it more spiritual and filled with love each and every day is the only genuine labor.

—Leo Tolstoy

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

—Voltaire

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

—Thomas Edison

“Let the temple of my body be the Lord’s.

He has built it and has cleansed it with his blood.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Surrendering your thinking to someone else is a more humiliating slavery than surrendering your body to someone.

—Leo Tolstoy

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

—Socrates

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

—Seneca

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

—Charles Darwin

Perhaps my enemies may have so much power given them from above, as to confine my body: but if I am bound, the word of the LORD will not be bound.

—George Whitefield

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

—Charlie Chaplin

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

—Miyamoto Musashi

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.

Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.

With these means, man can attain perfection.

—Plato

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it…..Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

—Socrates

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

—Socrates

Control your body if you want your mind to work properly.

René Descartes

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

—Aristotle