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 of praise of the doer consists.... - A wish is a desire without an attempt.
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. -- Oriental Proverb
- Private enterprise ... makes OK private action which would be considered
dishonest in public action.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)... - 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 no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr.... - 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 Augustine... - WISH Futile optimistic desire for something. -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
- Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. -- Julius Caesa
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a
thousand books.
-- Edward Abbey...
