“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
Le péché, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'âme.
La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
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Le péché, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'âme.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.
Senate speech, 1860.
1860s
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
Epilogue to Translations; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 40
Context: But now if any man or woman because of all this spiritual comfort that is aforesaid, be stirred by folly to say or to think: If this be true, then were it good to sin to have the more meed, — or else to charge the less to sin, — beware of this stirring: for verily if it come it is untrue, and of the enemy of the same true love that teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love. I am sure by mine own feeling, the more that any kind soul seeth this in the courteous love of our Lord God, the lother he is to sin and the more he is ashamed. For if afore us were laid all the pains in Hell and in Purgatory and in Earth — death and other —, and sin, we should rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain which is not sin. And to me was shewed no harder hell than sin. For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 38
Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 4, 694