weakness of the flesh

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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

This he did timidly: with shame for the weakness of the flesh.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

When I looked toward the one I had borne, yellow with rust, I trembled in the weakness of the flesh at the trial I felt impending over me.

From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew

But this I always thought of as a weakness of the flesh, and even culpable; my mind remaining steady and quite bent against him.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage was viewed in its lowest form, more as a concession to the weakness of the flesh than as a desirable state for all men and women.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman