So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God
and man.
-- Acts 24:16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must
have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking
from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing,
and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with
which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of
gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from
troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of
the clamors of conscience.
... G. H. Knight (1835-1917), In the Secret of His
Presence [1934]