#permitted

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#anything #between #else #expression #female

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#enjoy #god #grace #hell #may

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#permitted #proved

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#building #changes #even #hundreds #improvement

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us. ↗

— Maria Monk

#each #hearing #kept #nuns #old

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered