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The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit is the one that devours things for itself and refuses to make them an oblation to God. The carnal spirit is cruel, egocentric, avaricious, gluttonous, and lecherous, and as such us fevered, restless, and divided. The spiritual man, on the other hand, is alone the man who both knows what flesh is for and can enter into its amplitude. The lecher, for example, supposes that he knows more about love than the virgin or the continent man. He knows nothing. Only the virgin and the faithful spouse knows what love is about. The glutton supposes that he knows the pleasures of food, but the true knowledge of food is unavailable to his dribbling and surfeited jowls. The difference between the carnal man and the spiritual man is not physical. They may look alike and weigh the same. The different lies, rather, between one's being divided, snatching and grabbing at things, even nonphysical things like fame and power, or being whole and receiving all things as Adam was meant to receive them, in order to offer them as an oblation to their Giver. ↗


— Thomas Howard


#human-nature #sin #spiritual-life #faith

Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third. ↗


— Richelle E. Goodrich


#ally #enemies #fighting #human-nature #opposition

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play. ↗


— Philip Roth


#father #human-nature #men

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. ↗


— Emily Post


#humanity-and-society #relationships #relationship

Cause and effect are never divided between two people. ↗


— Max Frisch


#cause #effect #human-relationships #relationship

I place a higher value on human life than on no human life. But only barely.
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— Jarod Kintz


#humanism #humanistic #humor #life #relationships

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two. ↗


— H.G. Mewis


#h-g-mewis #human-condition #life #art

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗


— Margaret Atwood


#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

God save us from people who mean well. ↗


— Vikram Seth


#good-intentions #humanity #religion #religion

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ↗


— Dag Hammarskjold


#ask #attend #because #become #cravings






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