weakness of the flesh

Example Sentences

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"It used to be called 'Monk's disease,' coming from the effort to measure up to a great task against the weakness of the flesh," Quinn said.

From Time Magazine Archive

A contempt for the lesser degrees possessed him, for a flawed or clumsy forging, for weakness of the flesh, the fatality of easy surrender.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

You hear of a weakness of the flesh; but if you would understand it aright, it is not properly and simply a weakness.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

I feel it to be of especial value in this case, because I am young in years and in my ministry, and am conscious of a great weakness of the flesh.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

Measured by his own standards, even to harbor such thoughts as welled up in his mind was a sinful weakness of the flesh.

From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.