Quotes About Conscience

A world where a man is able to hunt his fellow man! How could he be called a man?

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Religion to Be a Part of Home Education—Home religion is fearfully neglected. Men and women show much interest in foreign missions. They give liberally to them and thus seek to satisfy their conscience, thinking that giving to the cause of God will atone for their neglect to set a right example in the home. But the home is their special field, and no excuse is accepted by God for neglecting this field.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience . Nothing is dearer or more fundamental.

In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power."--Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.

Unless therefore I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by the clearest reasoning, unless I am persuaded by means of the passages I have quoted, and unless they thus render my conscience bound by the word of God, I cannot and I will not retract, for it is unsafe for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me. Amen."-Martin Luther

You're not really afraid you'll hurt him. You're afraid because you believe it was wrong even to think it. But having a thought, even an awful one, is different from acting on it. All the difference in the world.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

Una speranza, a volte, indebolisce le coscienze, come un vizio.

Il cuore nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro.

Se ripercorro col pensiero, adesso, fin dal principio, tutta la mia storia con N., imparo che il cuore, nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro costumista. Per creare le sue maschere, gli basta magari una trovata da niente; a volte, per travestire le cose, sostituisce semplicemente una parola con un'altra... E la coscienza si aggira in questo gioco bizzarro come uno straniero a un ballo mascherato, fra i fumi del vino.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one.

Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

When we are tempted to give in to despair, to give up to self-indulgence or apathy, we have a place of refuge that will protect us from the attacks of a battered conscience

It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, "Don't do that—that's a sin!" And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard.

Endeavour to do only what you can be proud of someday. In other words, desist from doing anything that you might regret in the future or for life. That is to say, always think twice and as well apply wisdom on or before you take any decision or make any choice in life. ~Emeasoba George

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Budu?i da te nikakva prirodna sklonost ne nagoni na djelo i njegovo dovršenje, zašto tako silno težiš samoostvarenju? I budu?i da ne osu?uješ dokolicu, što te tjera na užurbanost i djelovanje? Odakle grižnja savjesti što tratiš vrijeme kad znaš za njegovu uzaludnost?