--Conscience, Deception --

'Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.'

--Sydney J. Harris
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'Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.'

--Blaise Pascal
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'When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.'

--C. S. Lewis
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'All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.'

--G.K. Chesterton -
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'What was so bad about [the Pharisees'] hypocrisy?...They were using God and the things of God as a means to some other end. "They do all their deeds to be noticed by men" (Matt. 23:5)...Better to ignore God altogether than to exploit Him as a means to something else you value more highly.'

--John Boykin
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'The search for self-fulfillment is endless, and endlessly frustrating.'

--James Hitchcock
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'The smallest package I ever saw was a man wrapped up wholly in himself.'

--Billy Graham ~~