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“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.”

Character Dream Dies Conscience Ultimate Bounds Frustrated Refuge Doomed Seekers Personal Character

Book:The Art of Life

Source: The Art of Life

“No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.”

Ifs Men World May Values Fall Understanding Work Share Particular Conscience Ultimate Assuming Satisfaction

Book:Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

Source: Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

“Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue altar, is you're where you find your conscience. This is where all conversations with God stream.”

Should Heart Felt Truth Is Conversation Conscience Sitting Ultimate Blue Streams Temples Altars Conversations With God

Author:Suzy Kassem

“I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.”

Ifs Thinking Should Law Land Conscience Ultimate Guides

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.”

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Author:Bruce Babbitt

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.”

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Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.”

People May Process Decision Conscience Ultimate Remains Decision Making Arbiter Decision Making Process

Author:Surya Das

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”