"The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."
"In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man."When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body."
"The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."
"The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons."
"The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."