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Arminius, also known as Armin or Hermann NULL
A good conscience is paradise.
Conscience | Good | Paradise | Wisdom |
Be not content with the commonplace in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
Ambition | Attainment | Character | Conscience | Heart | Impression | Power | Will | World | Ambition |
A conscience void of offense, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.
Character | Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Man | Offense | God |
There are those who are fearful to be alone with themselves. They run with the crowd not out of love for others but out of fear to remain alone with themselves, terrified lest they hear the voice of their own spirit, or fearful of remaining alone with their own void.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: there is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; we must love one another or die.
Have I met the hour patiently, without fear, at the portal? Now is my name called, of the lip of my love has spoken: Do I mistake you, O divine Signaler? is it after all some other soul that is hailed. My self is my answer: there’s that in my heart responds, meeting the call with equal voice, establishing forever the unspeakable bond! Bond that does not bind - bond that frees - bond that discovers and bestows. Look! I am flushed with inexhaustible possessions! The old measures vanish, I am expanded to infinite sweep... Before birth, seeing birth, after life seeing life!... This minute grown infinite, the far worlds spread before me, the endless drift of soul...
Birth | Character | Fear | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Mistake | Possessions | Self | Soul | Old |
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
Conscience | Death | God | Nothing | Quiet | Time | Wisdom |
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert though which rings the voice of God.
God | Misfortune | Wisdom |
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Conscience | Hell | Soul | Torture | Wisdom |
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Conscience | Important | Object | Wisdom |
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Common Sense | Lord | Sense | Wisdom |
False beliefs tend to undermine the identification of the subject matter; to undermine, therefore, the validity of a description of the belief as being about that subject... The more things a believer is right about, the sharper his errors are. To much mistake simply blurs the focus.
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse.