Gaimandor
@juliette.s.m
Gaimandor
@juliette.s.m
The first was a young man called Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul.4 According to his own account, he was a Jew by birth who had been sent by the community to suppress the activities of the new sect of Christians, Jews who believed that the Messiah had come. On his way to perform his mission he experienced a conversion and became convinced that
... See moreYou have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown... See more
“But I am not someone who likes to wound
rather
I have a quiet mind”
If not, Winter; Fragments of Sappho - Sappho
If you commit a sexual sin, you have used your body as an instrument of unrighteousness, and consequently, you have allowed sin to reign in your mortal body. If you commit a sexual sin with another person, the two of you become one flesh, according to 1 Corinthians 6:15-16.
“I wish I were the night so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.” Attributed to Plato by Borges
discovered reading “Katabasis” by R.F Kuang