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Accountability: Quotations from Burning Words

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections. their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.— EMMONS

When illusions are over, when the distractions of sense, the vagaries of fancy, and the tumults of passion have dissolved even before the body is cold, which once they so thronged and agitated, the soul merges into intellect, intellect into conscience, conscience into the unbroken, awful solitude of its own personal accountability; and though the inhabitants of the universe were within the spirit's ken, this personal accountability is as strictly alone and unshared, as if no being were throughout immensity but the spirit and its God.— HENRY GILES