"Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the……" — Josef Pieper

"Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person."

— Josef Pieper

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29 Quotes by Josef Pieper

Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The…
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which…
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to…
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a…
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean…
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest…
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to…
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have…
Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.

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More Abstinence Quotes

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather… — Samuel Butler
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I… — Giacomo Casanova
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. — Kurt Angle
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence… — Robert E. Lee
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker… — Clement of Alexandria
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining… — Clive James
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion… — James Madison

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