"Do not flatter yourself with that," said the father; "there are still such things as mortal sins- there is sloth, for example.""Nay, then, father dear!" I exclaimed, "after that, farewell to all 'the joys of life!'"
"Stay," said the monk, "when you have heard Escobar's definition of that vice, you will perhaps change your tone: 'Sloth,' he observes, 'lies in grieving that spiritual things are spiritual, as if one should lament that the sacraments are the sources of grace; which would be a mortal sin.'"
"O my dear sir!" cried I, "I don't think that anybody ever took it into his head to be slothful in that way."
"And accordingly," he replied, "Escobar afterwards remarks: 'I must confess that it is very rarely that a person falls into the sin of sloth.' You see now how important it is to define things properly?"
''I do not know everything; still many things I understand.'' Goethe
Observations by me and others of our tribe ... mostly me and my better half--youngsters have their own blogs
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The Provincial Letters
I'd read Pensees, but not The Provincial Letters. It seems some things don't change much. A sample:
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