How To Use concupiscence In A Sentence
- Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do. Treatise on the Love of God
- This concupiscible appetite, howsoever it may seem to carry with it a show of pleasure and delight, and our concupiscences most part affect us with content and a pleasing object, yet if they be in extremes, they rack and wring us on the other side. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh, and the hot imagination of puberty, and they so obscured and overcast my heart that I was unable to distinguish pure affection from unholy desire. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
- Snoopiness, gossip, toying with the occult, reluctance to do what is good, forgetfulness of God's will, factionalism, and many other failings are as much manifestations of concupiscence as disordered sexual impulses.
- The necessary frustration of desirousness or concupiscence is the chief feature of the calcinatio stage. Boing Boing
- To indulge the lust of concupiscence is to live and act like heathens? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
- How many of us would welcome a dose of concupiscence, when the grinding realities of sickness and need have drained the body of all its sap and sweetness, just as a reminder of being sentient!
- Our attraction to the sin in the world and to the temptations of the devil is called concupiscence, and is defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as an ‘inclination to evil’.
- Baius fell under censure for asserting (Props. 74, 75) that "concupiscence in the baptized is a sin, though not imputed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
