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“A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.”

World Matter Problem Spirit Suffering Clear Conscience What Matters Consoling Clear Conscience

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.”

Men Way Spirit Failing Influence Holy Conscience Handle Holy Spirit

Author:David Brainerd

“The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!”

People Ifs Important Soul Wisdom Form Spirit Politics Lost Justice Chance Economy Virtue Teaching Conscience Salvation Seeds Liberalism Live By Cardinals Piers

Author:William Langland

“To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.”

Mind Body Pain Happiness Spirit Enjoy Pleasure Disease Anxiety Conscience Tranquillity Vexation

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.”

Men Spirit Conscience Obstacles Bosoms Blushing Mutiny

Author:William Shakespeare

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

Men Made Spirit Found Chance Conscience Gold Shame Obstacles Bosoms Beggar Purses Blushing Mutiny

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.”

Should Mind Children Doe Christian Spirit Opportunity Sin Perfect Accepting Willing Ought Holy Conscience Contrary Holy Spirit Confession Vague Child Of God Reproach Perfect Work

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

Men Wells Spirit Individual Nations Destiny Loneliness Terrible Holy Conscience Lonely Affair Every Man Isolation Privacy

Book:Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917