Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.
It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into the background and seems to disappear more and more. Modern thought is impersonal. There are, even today, a great many people who understand that man needs salvation, but there are very few who are convinced that he needs forgiveness and redemption... Sin is understood as imperfection, sensuality, worldlinessâbut not as guilt.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.