What is "lusts"

Usage examples of "lusts".

As the natural man calls the enjoyments of self-love, which are also the enjoyments of the lusts of evil, good, and confirms that they are goods, he calls distinction and wealth divine blessings.

Anyone can see from reason that lusts with their pleasures block and close the door to the Lord and cannot be cast out by the Lord as long as the man himself keeps the door shut and presses and pushes from outside to keep it from being opened.

A man has the love of wisdom when he is averse to the diabolical crew, that is, to the lusts of evil and falsity.

No one who is in the pleasures of the lusts of evil can know anything of the joys of the affections of good in which the angelic heaven is.

They come of lusts which obsess the interiors of the mind, from these flow into the body, and excite uncleannesses there which titillate the fibers.

These felicities enter when a man, of himself and yet from the Lord, casts out the lusts of the love of evil and falsity.

For these felicities are the happinesses of the affections of good and truth, the opposites of the lusts of the love of evil and falsity.

There is no comparing the joys of the lusts of evil and the joys of the affections of good.

If comparisons are to be ventured, the pleasures of the lusts of evil can only be compared to the lewd pleasures of frogs in stagnant ponds or to those of snakes in filth, while the pleasures of the affections of good must be likened to the delights which the mind takes in gardens and flower beds.

The internal cannot be purified from the lusts of evil as long as the evils in the external man have not been removed, for these impede.

The Lord then purifies him from the lusts of evil in the internal man and from the evils themselves in the external.

The continuous effort of the Lord in His divine providence is to unite man to Himself and Himself to man, in order to be able to bestow the felicities of eternal life on him, which can be done only so far as evils, along with their lusts, are removed.

So those do who are in lusts of evil but want to appear to the world not to be in them.

Affections, or strictly lusts, of infernal love are as numerous as evils are, and affections, or properly loves, of heavenly love are as many as there are goods.

Infernal love, however, with its affections or lusts of evil and falsity, together with the enjoyments of the lusts and the thinking from those enjoyments, may be compared to a spider and the web spun about it.