Sentences with phrase «weakness of the flesh»

The very weakness of our flesh makes us reactive and violent.

Most assuredly; however, what's the difference between stumbling due to the inherent weaknesses of the flesh in a cursed world; and one who practices sin?

IN THE FILMS OF JACQUES NOLOT, weakness of the flesh implies bodily decline as much as unbidden desire.

there is a difference between stumbling due the inherent weaknesses of our flesh; and the conscious deliberate disobedience to God, i.e., practicing sin — that is deliberate and ongoing.

When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we're mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos.

The rose candle, it dawns upon me, is the great «light» of Advent — better even than the Christmas tree — for it shows us that the deepest reality, the really fundamental truth, is that God does not disdain the confines of the manger, nor the frailty and weakness of our flesh.

I find that people who usually speak the loudest against the weaknesses of the flesh often have issues in those areas.

No story Jesus ever told approaches in power the story of which he was the hero: the story of the Son of God who in order to redeem man became a man himself, accepting in every part our human lot, the weakness of flesh, the trial of sin, the bitterness of loneliness, frustration, despair and death.

LUST In the annals of sin, weaknesses of the flesh — lust, gluttony, sloth — are considered second - tier offenses, less odious than the «spiritual» sins of envy and pride.

That I can mentally overcome the weakness of the flesh.