Scrupulosity Quotes

“I just want to know if I can go to Heaven. That's all I want in life, salvation in the next.”
― Sarah Gracia, Prisoners of War

“If all one gets from prayer is the devastating truth of one's sinfulness, then it is not of God for above all, He brings us grace.”
― Cardinal Arthur Roche, The Gardens of God

“And when you are thus turned towards God, above all do not turn your back to yourself at all. Don't ask where you stand with God. The sadness of not being perfect and finding yourself a sinner is still a human sentiment.”
― Cardinal Arthur Roche, The Gardens of God

“Scrupulosity has the following characteristic features: (1) perfectionism, (2) chronic doubt, and (3) moral thought-action fusion...

In likelihood thought-action fusion, sufferers believe that their thoughts, merely by occurring, make some bad outcome (such as the act or event that they are imagining) more likely to occur...

In moral thought-action fusion, by contrast, people with Scrupulosity fail to distinguish doing something immoral from thinking about doing something immoral, and hence, treat thoughts as equivalent (or close) in moral status to physical actions. They see having unacceptable thoughts, even if they are uncontrollable and intrusive thoughts, as (almost) as bad as having an immoral intention, making an immoral attempt, or even actually performing an immoral action.”
― Jesse S. Summers, Clean Hands: Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity