“It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.”
Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#6
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"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
Housman, Act I
The Invention of Love (1997)
Condemning usury. p. 849
Quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition)
Quote, (August 1914); as quoted in Franz Marc, horses, ed. Christian von Holst, Hatje Cantz Publishers, (undated), 15 December 1914, p.34
by the outbreak of World War 1. in August 1914 the animals had disappeared in Marc's art. Only colours and forms – the abstract – had to evoke the spiritual]
1911 - 1914
“Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 214
“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.”
"Rudyard Kipling", p. 31
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 25
Context: Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe—among many possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere.