“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
“I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child.… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
“Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/43c/heloise-27050_affection_i-t-is-not-by-being-richer-or-more-power_726871.jpg)
