God considered not action, but the spirit of the action. It is the intention,
not the deed, wherein the merit or praise of the doer consists...The sin,
then, consists not in desiring a woman, but in consent to the desire, and not
the wish for whoredom, but the consent to the wish is damnation.
-- Peter Abelard (Pierre Abailard) (1079-1142)
not the deed, wherein the merit or praise of the doer consists...The sin,
then, consists not in desiring a woman, but in consent to the desire, and not
the wish for whoredom, but the consent to the wish is damnation.
-- Peter Abelard (Pierre Abailard) (1079-1142)
Related:
- God considered not action, but the spirit of the action.
It is the intention, not the deed, wherein the merit... - A wish is a desire without an
attempt... - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental... - Private enterprise ... makes OK private action which would be considered
dishonest in public action.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917... - TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent
invested with a certain sanctity,
but when they have been long tenanted it is considered... - If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce
love because you do not consent,
will chastity also be homicide? -- Saint... - WISH
Futile optimistic desire for something.
--
Daniel Bowen's TOXIC... - Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.
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Julius... - Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a
thousand books.
Edward...
From the same category:
- Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
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Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 CE) "Meditations"... - Deus ex machina. (A god from the machine.)
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Menander (c.342-c.291 BCE) "The Woman Possessed with... - That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of the atoms,
I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling... - When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance,
there will be great changes in the code of morals... - Necessity has no law. -- St.
Augustine (354-430 CE) "Soliloquium Animae....
