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“Venial Sin recedes from the ordination of the law but does not destroy the ordination of the law.”

“We call incurable and mortal a disease that destroys a life principle.”

“Habits do not cause necessity absolutely, although they especially do so in sudden situations. For however much persons are habituated, they can still act contrary to habit.”

“Humans beings who sin have lost free choice regarding freedom from moral fault and unhappiness but not regarding freedom from coercion.”

“If every effect were to result from a natural cause, and every natural cause necessarily to produce its effect, the. Everything would be necessary. Both suppositions are false.”

“True is a concept that exists in the mind. It has a more formal element than the good does, and more power to move as regards the object. The good has more power to move as regards the end.”

“The will moves the intellect to activity, and the will is moved by itself, not by another power. An object good is every respect necessarily moves the will. So also necessary truths (cannot conceived to be false) move the intellect, and contingent truths (which can be conceived to be false) do not.”

“Human beings, although they necessarily will happiness, do not necessarily will any of the things leading to happiness.”

“Happiness is a condition made complete by combining all good things.”

“It does not seem meritorious or demeritorious for persons to do necessarily what they could not avoid doing.”

“One who sins out of malice sins most seriously and most dangerously and cannot be recalled from sin as easily as one who sins out of weakness, in whom there remains at least a good intention.”

“The purer the judgement to reason, the sharper the choice to gain merit or incur demerit. One whom the deliberation of reason induced to commit sin sins more than one whom only an emotion of the soul induced to commit sin.”

“Not willing to resist some emotion, although not a mortal sin absolutely, is a mortal sin in the situation where the emotion where the emotion inclines a person to be point of consenting to mortal sin. Not resisting an emotion that inclines one to mortal sin involves mortal sin.”

“Consent to act belongs to intellectual appetite and yet there is no consent without connection to something particular, regarding which the emotions of the soul can be most powerful. So emotions sometimes affect consent.”