concupiscence

• Now since the fomes of sin is nothing more than concupiscence, as the gloss says on Rom. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• What else is there so clean for cleansing mortals as the flesh born in the womb without fleshly concupiscence, and coming from a virginal womb? —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• 3: Difficulty in doing good and proneness to evil are in the baptized, not through their lacking the habits of the virtues, but through concupiscence which is not taken away in Baptism. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• Because the least grace can resist any degree of concupiscence, and avoid every mortal sin, that is committed in transgressing the precepts of the Law; for the smallest degree of charity loves God more than cupidity loves "thousands of gold and silver" (Ps. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• The scars burned into the character by the flames of concupiscence are as deep and lasting as those inflicted upon the body, and even more so. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young

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