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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 |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
All sin is a form of lying...Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Abstinence | Lying | Moderation | Sin | Wisdom |
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 |
The first and worst of all frauds is the cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Francis Beaumont (c.1585-1614) and John Fletcher
Nothing is a misery, unless our weakness apprehend it so; we cannot be more faithful to ourselves, in anything that’s manly, than to make ill-fortune as contemptible to us as it makes us to others.
Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England
As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages another's virtues by detraction, and thine own vainglory. It is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of fury, the sin of devils, and devil of mankind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate it, God hate thee.
Devil | Envy | Friend | Fury | God | Hate | Love | Man | Mankind | Mind | Mother | Pride | Sin | Wisdom | God |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
Wherever progress ends, decline in variably begins; but remember that the healthful progress of society is like the natural life of man - it consists in the gradual and harmonious development of all its constitutional powers, all its component parts, and you introduce weakness and disease into the whole system whether you attempt to stint or to force its growth.
Disease | Ends | Force | Growth | Life | Life | Man | Progress | Society | System | Weakness | Wisdom | Society |
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Conscience | Hell | Soul | Torture | Wisdom |
Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton
Every other sin hath some pleasures annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both. We should strive against it, for if indulged in it will be to us as a foretaste of hell upon earth.
God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Conscience | Important | Object | Wisdom |