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Body Quotes

  • Jul 6, 2021
  • 4 min read

Updated: Mar 17, 2022

The body is the only medium through which the mind and the soul are developed for the upbuilding of character.

Ellen G White


What you get back from your body depends on what you put into your body.



Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn


I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 12:1-2


The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson


An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.



If we make the stomach a cemetery of food, the body will soon become the sepulchre of the soul.

Chatfield


Health of body and vigour of mind is more dependant on the food we eat, than on any one thing.

L Coleman


Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Thoreau


So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:27


Embrace and love your body - it is the most amazing thing you will ever own.



A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

Francis Bacon


I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalms 139:14


Health is a relationship between you and your body.

Terri Guillemets


For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:20


My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo Da Vinci


Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16


Your body hears everything your mind says.

Naomi Judd


Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

Susanna Wesley


Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.

William Shakespeare


When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.

Chinese Proverb


Healthy mind, healthy body.

Lailah Gifty Akita


Bien dans sa peau = Well in one's skin. Content or at ease with oneself.



The body is to be brought into subjection. The higher powers of the being are to rule. The passions are to be controlled by the will, which is itself to be under the control of God. The kingly power of reason, sanctified by divine grace, is to bear sway in our lives.

Ellen G White


For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:10


We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Ellen G White


Love your body because you only have one.



Your body is your house and if you don’t take care of it, you have to leave.

Tracy Owens


But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

1 Corinthians 9:27


A feeble body weakens the mind.

Rousseau


Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time; but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarum runs out before the hour.

R Hall


To keep the body in a healthy condition, in order that all parts of the living machinery may act harmoniously, should be a study of our life. The children of God cannot glorify Him with sickly bodies or dwarfed minds.

Ellen G White


The more fully that we comprehend the structure of our body, the more attentive shall we be to its preservation in a state of health, and the more capable of accomplishing that all-important object.

R Chambers


What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Corinthians 6:19


Body and mind are harnessed together to perform in concert the journey of life, a duty which they will accomplish pleasantly and safely if the coachman, judgement, do not drive one faster than the other.

Chatfield


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

Thomas Edison


God made the human body, and it is by far the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. It is a study for one’s whole life.

H W Beecher

2025

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