The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.