Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Southey , English poet (1774 – 1843)
authority, conscience, however, impairs, increases, innocent, itself, judge, lawfulness, obscures, pleasure, reason, relish, sense, short, spiritual, strength, takes, tenderness, unlawfulness, weakens, whatever
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