And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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