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1 " [God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
2 " No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished? "
― J.M. Coetzee , Elizabeth Costello
3 " To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion "
― Richard J. Foster , Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
