CONSCIENCE / GUILT

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“Because sentence against a bad deed has not been executed speedily, the heart of men becomes emboldened to do bad.” – Solomon – Eccl. 8:11 – The BIBLE

“There is a kind of smoke in evil, in which the conscience cannot breathe.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Character is who we are in the dark. – Dwight L. Moody

The greatest griefs are the ones we cause ourselves. – Sophocles

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. – C. S. Lewis

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience.  With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear of death. – Voltaire

As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me most are the one I DO understand. – Mark Twain

“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

To be angry is easy, but to be angry with the right man and at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. – Aristotle

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

The worst thing that can happen to a person is not to die young.  The worst thing is to live a long active life, only to be separated eternally from God. – Someone very wise

Honesty, for the most part, is less profitable than dishonesty. – Plato

The bitterest tears shed over graves are the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don’t take guilt trips.  Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. – George Carlin

Most people want to be delivered from temptation, but would like to keep in touch. – Robert Orien

Getting angry can be like getting into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the moter, taking off at high speed, and then discovering the brakes are out of order. – Maggie Scarf

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“Grief is an examination.  There is no judge so searching as conscience conducting its own trial.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi    

Emotion is energy in motion.  Guilt is the energy for personal change – Somebody smart

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient—then repent. – Bob Dylan

Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Beware of the woman who thinks much of her glory, but little of her reputation. – Victor Hugo

Guilt—the gift that keeps on giving. – Erma Bombeck    

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. – Voltaire

We’re all proud of our little mistakes.  It gives us the feeling we never make any big ones. – Andy Rooney

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

“It’s a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.  It’s a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” – Charles Darney facing execution by guillotine at the conclusion of A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Charles Dickens

Cowards die many times before their death. – Julius Caesar

Anger is the condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. – Unknown       

When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl                          

Mistakes are a fact of life—it’s the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

Smoking means always having to say you’re sorry. – Somebody important

“The wolves became lambs. Such transformations occur in last agonies of life. However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad. – Abraham Lincoln

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain  

Love is too young to know what conscience is. – William Shakespeare

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. – Anais Nin

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. – Larry the Cable Guy