Category: TEMPTATION & LUST & VIRGINITY

  • You were more of an imperfect escape from reality due to the asymmetry in our feelings for each other.

    Bimbo Ubermensch
    The Ocean

  • It’s the terror young men feel towards attractive women, who are nature itself, ever ready to reject them, intimately, at the deepest possible level. Nothing inspires self-consciousness, undermines courage, and fosters feelings of nihilism and hatred more than that.

    12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
    Jordan B. Peterson

  • The dangerous thing is when the feelings of sin are aroused in a person, like lust, envy, or other feelings, so he tries to ignore their existence, and thinks that if these feelings were truly present, they would defile him. There is a difference, however, between a person who admits the existence of these feelings and then deals with them to make them godly feelings, and [a person who] ignores and suppresses them. When a person deals with these feelings and reveals them to the light of Christ, he is sanctified. But if he ignores and denies their existence, they will remain buried within him, and they may come out violently at some point in time, thereby causing devastation in his life.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Develop Your Personality

  • Likewise, the devil may approach an adolescent young man, and entice him into satisfying his flesh by way of sensual pleasure, but the Lord says to him, “Wait until you are in a godly relationship through the Mystery of Matrimony. Then you will find perfect satisfaction.”

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Develop Your Personality

  • It was no secret that Kafka felt great embarassment and disgust in regards to the human body because to him it was a reminder of the passing of time and of its horrifying effects on man, it was a reminder of the clock ticking away which made him feel powerless. He most likely was overpowered by this awareness that engaging in the act was just a mere distraction from the passing of time. Franz Kafka had this longing for perfection, personal fulfillment and greatness so it was pretty obvious that, since he felt like he could never accomplish anything in his lifetime, he saw death as the definitive deadline to the point where he even asked that his literary production would be burned after his death.

    The general opinion on Kafka’s sexuality is oversimplifying

  • I know you are so focused on how attractive Hermione looks and your heart is in a flurry of excitement, but if you really think about what you are attracted to—a physical body that is just full of fluid, food, bile, spit, and other such things—you would hopefully realize what you admire is far less beautiful than one’s soul.

    ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, ON REPENTANCE & DEFEATING DESPAIR
    Letters to Theodore

  • “Living a chaste Christian life is sometimes more difficult than suffering a martyr’s death.”

    —St. Mark the Aescetic

  • the power which, in our disordered, fallen nature, draws us towards sin, is not entirely exterminated in baptism, but it is only placed in a condition in which it has no power over us, no dominion over us, and we do not serve it. But it is still in us, it lives and acts, only not as a lord. The primacy from now on belongs to the grace of God and to the soul that consciously gives itself over to it.

    —St. Theophan the Recluse, Raising Them Right: A Saint’s Advice on Raising Children p.21

  • On the spirit of Pride

    CHAPTER XIII: The teaching of the elders on the method of acquiring purity. WHEREFORE it is now time to produce, in the very words in which they hand it down, the opinion of the Fathers; viz., of those who have not painted the way of perfection and its character in high-sounding words, but rather, possessing it in deed and truth, and in the virtue of their spirit, have passed it on by their own experience and sure example. And so they say that no one can be altogether cleansed from carnal sins, unless he has realized that all his labours and efforts are insufficient for so great and perfect an end; and unless, taught, not by the system handed down to him, but by his feelings and virtues and his own experience, he recognizes that it can only be gained by the mercy and assistance of God. For in order to acquire such splendid and lofty prizes of purity and perfection, however great may be the efforts of fastings and vigils and readings and solitude and retirement applied to it, they will not be sufficient to secure it by the merits of the actual efforts and toil For a man’s own efforts and human exertions will never make up for the lack of the divine gift, unless it is granted by divine compassion in answer to his prayer.

    —St. John Cassian, Institutes

  • Until God’s grace visits you, it is impossible for you to change for the better.

    —St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ