Today’s One-Liner (#254)
Sin consists in the loss of order in the soul, just as sickness consists in disorder of the body. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #299
Tag: Sin
Today’s One-Liner (#242)
Brothers, do not be afraid of men’s sin, love man also in his sin, for this likeness of God’s love is the height of love on earth. –Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Today’s One-Liner (#237)
Inordinate fear is included in every sin; the miser fears the loss of money, the intemperate man the loss of pleasure. –Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #302
Today’s One-Liner (#61)
It is perhaps even more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God