I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to creat...e where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances i...t can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Accept these costly wreaths for my own sake (Death asks no entrance fee to let you in)... And for the decent sense of heaven and hell: Take them, and think not much on mortal sin. Now, brother, time being money, I say farewell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, h...ypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could bear to suffer ... so many have suffered. But why must it be like this? I have not deserved it. I have been true in friend...ship; I have faithfully nursed others in sickness.... Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is still a great deal of legalism in the Old Testament idea of sin. The emphasis in the Sermon on the Mount is very differen...t from that in the commandments that Moses brought down from Sinai. The commandments have been translated into beatitudes. "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth," is not a sentence one could read in the Old Testament without a jolt, but by the time we reach it in the New Testament, we have been prepared for it. It is set in the context of the rest of Christ's life and teaching. Without that example the sentence carries little conviction because there is no evidence that the meek do or ever will inherit the earth. We have been turned away from a concern merely with our outward acts, to contemplate what lies most deep in our innermost selves, hidden from all but ourselves and God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters... Deliver us to laws; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears: Without, our shame; within, our consciences; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,... A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »