| 2527 "The Good News of Christ continually renews the life and culture of fallen man; it combats and removes the error and evil which flow from the ever-present attraction of sin. It never ceases to purify and elevate the morality of peoples. It takes the spiritual qualities and endowments of every age and nation, and with supernatural riches it causes them to blossom, as it were, from within; it fortifies, completes, and restores them in Christ." |
| 2528 "Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Mt 5:28). |
| 2529 The ninth commandment warns against lust or carnal concupiscence. |
| 2530 The struggle against carnal lust involves purifying the heart and practicing temperance. |
| 2531 Purity of heart will enable us to see God: it enables us even now to see things according to God. |