Quotes About Concupiscence

#1. All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

Margaret Of Valois

#3. Speculator [10w]
A speculator's eyes light up alternately by greed and concupiscence.

Beryl Dov

#4. As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

Scott Hahn

#5. libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

Laurence Sterne

#7. You won't trick me that easily into drinking your tea of concupiscence, Miss Ashby.

Tiffany Reisz

#8. Ho, you pretty man, turn aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay at him so flatteringly that she had him in her grot which is named Two-in-the-Bush or, by some learned, Carnal Concupiscence.

James Joyce

#9. Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?

Blaise Pascal

#10. Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.

Saint Augustine

#11. There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

Saint Augustine

#12. The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

#14. The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

Dwight L. Moody

#15. Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Salvador Dali

#16. Rest, nature, books, music ... such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God. Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and don't let go.

(letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970)

Patti Smith

#18. The word is the making of the world

Wallace Stevens

#19. Arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.

Thomas Pynchon

#20. His smile was apologetic. I did warn you not to trust me, you know.

George R R Martin

#21. All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.

Ramakrishna

#22. Carter did not wish to meet a bhole, so

H.P. Lovecraft