Thesis III: Not all actions performed by man in the state of mortal sin are sinful on account of his not being in the state of grace.
The quintessence of this heretical system is embodied in the proposition that whatever a man does in the state of mortal sin is necessarily sinful for the reason that he is not in the state of grace (status caritatis).
He moves the sinner to perform an act; but He does not move Him to perform a sinful act.
The Apostle regards the merciful dispensations of Providence in favor of the Chosen People, and of the entire sinful race of men in general, as so many sheer graces.
If it takes a neutral attitude, (which may in itself be a sinful act), and awaits efficacious grace, of what use is sufficient grace?
Sinful negligence on the part of these responsible agents cannot, therefore, be charged to Divine Providence, but must be laid at the door of those human agents who fail to do their duty.
Billuart and nearly all the later Thomists say that if any one who has received sufficient grace (in the Thomistic sense of the term) is denied the gratia efficax, it must be attributed to a sinfulresistance of the will.
If the rational creature were compelled to perform a sinful act, as act, resistance would be impossible.
Weakness is not malice, though sinful habits often beget impenitence, which is one of the sins against the Holy Ghost and the most formidable obstacle in the way of conversion.
It was even sinfulfor a man to exercise the common prudence of laying by a certain portion of his income.
It wassinful for a woman to wear any gold ornament or any brilliant dress.
It was by hoping in the Lord that he quieted his soul, and all its unruly sinful passions.
And hence ariseth all these doubts, murmurings, and sinful complainings that are found in the hearts of the people of God; they have too much to do with the law; the law of works is now in the conscience, imposing duty upon the carnal part.
I would to God that those who are otherwise minded did but feel, for three or four months, something of what I have felt for several years together for base sinful thoughts!
But perhaps thou presumest upon it, and sayest, I shall have peace, though I live so sinful a life.
To speak of the gospel, and of the carriage of sinful souls towards God under that dispensation.
We may adopt the language of the poet, and say-- 'Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
But all these did this poor creature; wherefore he must stand 'just from the law in the sight of God, while sinful in himself.
He is not ashamed of us, though now in heaven; why should we be ashamed of him before this adulterous and sinful generation?
A man cannot be sorry for the sinful defects of nature, till he sees they have rendered him contemptible to God; nor is it any thing but a sight of God that can make him truly see what he is, and so be heartily sorry for being so.
He who can carry off the souls of the ungodly can doubtless annihilate their sinful bodies.
Commendator, "his soul shall have time to prepare for its separation from thesinful body.
I know, therefore, that the Prince of Darkness can have no power over your dear-bought soul; and that no sinful curse can destroy the peace of God in your heart, or wipe off the holy ointment from your crowned head.
The Lord have mercy on his sinful soul," sighed Aage, rising half breathless.
Devil take his own, and Ole Ark's sinful soul too, if the worst come to the worst!
He became the author in the Church of a deadly heresy called Gnosticism, mixing up what he had learnt of the doctrines of Christianity with heathen philosophy and sinful living, and making pretence of being endowed with miraculous gifts.
He felt the spray from her lips upon his cheek, as she said: "It seems sinful to wish for greater happiness than this.
We are daily feeding the demons that are in us by our wicked thoughts and sinful acts; these are their meat and drink.
I am anxious to do it, and yet my experience and observation in reference to such a course, and my knowledge of the sinfulheart of a child, lead me to think I am undertaking a great thing.
And when he found us so degraded and sinful and disfigured, He loved us still, because we are His own children.
Everything in our conception of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of His work for us depends upon what we think about this primary fact of man's condition, that he is a sinful man.
If I do not feel as the Bible would have me feel, that I am a sinful man, I shall think differently of Jesus Christ and of my need of Him, and of what He is to me.
He felt the pain of solitude more sharply than sinful men do.
The answer to these questions is involved in the answer to the other:--Have you trusted your sinful soul for salvation to Jesus Christ, and are you drawing from Him a life which bears fruit in glad service and in patient communion?
You must follow Christ first, my friend, by coming to Him as a sinful creature, and finding your whole salvation and all your hope in humble reliance on the merit of His death.
And further let me remind you that with the supernatural facts of our Lord's resurrection and ascension stands or falls the possibility of His communicating any of His righteousness to us sinful men.
And these sinful longings to see him once more, these involuntary reachings of her soul after an earthly companionship, she should find strength to overcome in this pilgrimage.
You must root out of your thought every trace and remembrance of these words of sinful earthly love which he hath spoken.
Agnes, dear little lamb, you know nothing of the world; and I should be most wicked to disturb your lovely peace of soul with any sinful doubts.
TO AGNES Sweet saint, sweet lady, may a sinful soul Approach thee with an offering of love, And lay at thy dear feet a weary heart That loves thee, as it loveth God above?
Why should I wish to see him again, when I should only he tempted to sinful thoughts, and when my dear uncle, who can do so much for him, has his soul in charge?
Beware of everlasting pain, for of all earthly knights I have most pity of thee, for I know well thou hast not thy peer of any earthly sinful man.
For I dare say as sinful as Sir Launcelot hath been, sith that he went into the quest of the Sangreal he slew never man, nor nought shall, till that he come unto Camelot again, for he hath taken upon him for to forsake sin.
These spindles, said the damosel, were when sinful Eve came to gather fruit, for which Adam and she were put out of paradise, she took with her the bough on which the apple hung on.
But God knoweth his thought and his unstableness, and yet shall he die right an holy man, and no doubt he hath no fellow of no earthly sinful man.
Yes, said the damosel, that were ye, and are yet, of any sinful man of the world.
You weak and sinful creature, bobbing here, and bobbing there, like a chicken with its head cut off!
There'll be ruffians and gamblers with masks over their sinful faces, and who's to know?
No, his thoughts did not fly so far, and yet they were sinful, sinful as thoughts born of young hearts, sinful here in the temple, in the presence of Fo and the other holy gods.
That was a sinful thought, and he blessed himself to drive it away.
But, while we have a right to the enjoyments of life, we never will countenance sinful indulgences.
This knowledge enables him to overcome the world, the flesh, and all evil, to have dominion over his own sinful sense and self.
The sick are more deplorably situated [25] than the sinful, if the sick cannot trust God for help and the sinful can.
When wholly governed by the one perfect Mind, [1] man has no sinful thoughts and will have no desire to sin.
Sinful heaved a sigh of relief, which was echoed by the others, squinted from his hand to the faces of the two remaining players, and grinned sardonically.
Sinful grinned up at the smiling rider, his missing teeth only making more prominent the few brown fangs he had left.
Tex lighting a freshly rolled cigarette, faced the local boss, Hank on his right and Sinful on his left, the eager onlookers settling behind their champions.
Tex turned to the group and laughed, playfully poking Sinful in the ribs.
He ordered Sinful and Hank to pile the weapons at his feet, locked them together again and ordered them to get closer to the rest of the miners.
Sinful placed it reverently on the creek bank and looked at his staring friend.
Sinful and Hank were dancing to the music of a jew's-harp and the time set by stamping, hob-nailed boots.
Hank glared at Sinful, Sinful glared at Hank, and then both glared at their captor.
Sinful flashed a pitying glance over his shoulder.
We could come faster if we was loose from each other," whispered Sinfulin bland innocence.
Sinful smelled a rat and looked properly suspicious, his keen old mind racing along on the theory that no one ever gave away anything valuable.
He no sooner had stopped behind a patch of scrub oak than he caught sight of Sinful carefully picking his way across the stony ground in his socks, one hand carrying the can, the other a pair of boots.
Sinful spoke out of one corner of his mouth as he gazed intently down the creek bed, where one corner of Blascom's hut could be seen through the scrawny timber on the little point.
And He tells us to look at Him and live, just as the poor sinful people, dying of the serpent's bite, looked at the serpent of brass, and their deadly wound was healed.
But there is a beauty which will not fade, and if thou wilt but listen to the doctrine of our Lord, the Buddha, thou wilt find that peace which thou wouldst have found in the restless world of sinful pleasures.
Extinction of self, the, salvation; the extinction of sinful desire; the extinction of thirst.
Here is a sinful feeling indulged, which, if not subdued, may lead to murder.
It was not long after Frank had the conversation with his mother upon the temptation to sinful actions, that he claimed her promise to tell him how we may be tempted to sinful thoughts.
He then kissed his mother, and she promised to tell him, some other time, how we are tempted by sinful thoughts.
He sang a wicked song, an evil song, a song of sinful pleasure, a song of Venus.
He had dwelt in an unholy place, he had been the slave ofsinful pleasure, he had blasphemed his God,--but awakening had come at last.
I do not think you can, as long as you remain in a sinful state.
Sinful preacher, ask again In this nearness of thy Lord, How to HIM has rung thy strain, When it seem'd to speak His Word.
The Christian belief that man could be saved through faith in the forgiveness of Jesus who died for his sins, "so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin" (Rom.
