Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

We are born with a conscience

We do not have to create a conscience for ourselves. We are born with one, and no matter how much we may ignore it, we cannot silence its insistent demand that we do good and avoid evil. No matter how much we may deny our freedom and our moral responsibility, our intellectual soul cries out for a morality and a spiritual freedom without which it knows it cannot be happy.

Thomas Merton
No Man is an Island, p. 41-42

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