Quotes About Conscience

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.

Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.' 'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoordde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan ook een schoon geweten.' Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er ooit een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoon geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

Every attempt to produce holy living by applying Moses to the conscience is an attempt to give Moses a job God never intended him to have. It also denies the true bridegroom his full rights as the new husband.

I being now upright without it, and that too with that righteousness, with which this law speaks well of and approveth; I may not, will not, cannot, dare not, make it my Saviour and Judge, nor suffer it to set up its government in my conscience; for so doing I fall from grace, and Christ doth profit me nothing.22

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

It would be salutary, however, if we could retain our complacency in good conscience.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.

Neither of you ever let fear put chains on your conscience.