Instincts, physiological needs, passions
Not to be confused with Passion (Redemption).
The term "passions" belongs to the Christian heritage. Feelings or passions refer to emotions or movements of sensitivity, which incline one to act or not act based on what is felt or imagined as good or bad. [...][1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Jesus says: And indeed Joseph offers himself as a holocaust for the sin of the world and the expiation of that sin. And he does this with his body mortified by his vow (of celibacy) to abolish the instincts that, once at the beginning of time, triumphed, harming the rights of God over man.[2]
- If by the effect of my will I have reduced all the passions that are not good even before their birth, I have let grow, powerful like hundred-year-old cedars, the holy passions of filial love, love of the Homeland, of friendships, of work, of all that is excellent and holy.[3]
- Have the spontaneity of the child who instinctively goes toward the one whose goodness it feels.[4]
- I do not love the cruel. I do not love the proud. I do not love the irascible, the greedy, the lustful. I have never given you a word or an example of these things, but always, on the contrary, I have taught you the Virtues opposed to these bad passions.[5]
- Others do not know how to distinguish between natural events and faults, and they make a scruple of having sinned when they have only obeyed natural laws that are good. By saying "good" I distinguish natural laws from unrestrained instincts. Because everything now called "natural laws" is not that and is not good. All laws attached to human nature given by God to the first parents were good: the need for food, rest, and drink. Then, with sin, animal instincts penetrated and mingled with natural laws with disorders, sensualities of all kinds, spoiling what was good by lack of moderation.[6]
In Fundamental Christian Texts
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- The term "passions" belongs to the Christian heritage. Feelings or passions refer to emotions or movements of sensitivity, which incline one to act or not act based on what is felt or imagined as good or bad. [...][7]