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“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”

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Author:Georges Bernanos

“Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.”

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Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

Enough Justice Strength Conscience Faults Coward Stoops

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.”

May Ideas Conscience Shining Faults Merit Silver Bending Nickels

Book:I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.”

Heart Pain Conscience Faults Deeds Good Deeds Console

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

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Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)

“It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.”

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Book:The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Reason Eye Passion Enemy Failing Duty Discipline Conscience Faults Insight Each Day Over You Within You Self Discipline Untrue

Author:Khalil Gibran

“A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'”

Ifs Knows Men Art Said Reality Might Action Evil Pleasure He Man Conscience Mark Faults Committed Believer Muhammad Forsake True Believer

Author:Muhammad

“When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.”

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Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.”

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Author:Thomas a Kempis

“A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.”