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Concupiscence Quotes by Saint Augustine
- 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…
- 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…
More Concupiscence Quotes
- Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes… — Emmanuel Levinas
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner
- No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
- There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties… — Saint Augustine
- Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine
- So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day
- The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — Thomas Aquinas
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal