Love—not love toward a specific person but the spiritual condition of readiness to love everything—is the only condition in which we are conscious of the true spiritual source of our souls.
—Leo Tolstoy
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.
—John Newton
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.
—John Newton