Impure Thoughts: How Far is Too Far?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Where’s the line between appreciating someone’s beauty and falling into lust? Dr. Sri breaks open St. John Paul II’s wisdom from Love and Responsibility to help us understand the inner movements of attraction, temptation, and purity. With clarity and compassion, he explains the three stages that lead from innocent attraction into lust—and how resisting temptation, even imperfectly, is already a victory of grace.
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| 1:20.1 | Hi, I'm Edwards 3, and welcome to all things Catholic, |
| 1:24.0 | where real faith meets real life. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you. Catholic, where real faith meets real life. God made people beautiful, and surely he wants us to appreciate their beauty. |
| 1:36.2 | So what's the difference between an innocent interest in someone's physical appearance |
| 1:40.9 | and a lustful thought? |
| 1:42.6 | And how do I know if I've crossed that line? |
| 1:44.8 | That's what we're going to take a look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, Edwards, 3. And in my work, I do a lot of teaching on relationships, dating, engagement, marriage. And I wrote a whole book on this topic called Men, Women, and the Mystery of love. It's probably the book I over the years |
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| 2:06.5 | really excited to share some news with you. Ascension Press is the new publisher of this book. |
| 2:11.3 | I received some emails from some of you earlier this fall where you're having trouble finding |
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