Quotes About Conscience

The wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. had been long forgotten. "The church must be reminded that it is not to be the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state—never its tool," King said. "As long as the church is a tool of the state it will be unable to provide even a modicum of bread for men at midnight.

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

in America, as Friedrich Hayek and others have noted, a conservative is one who protects and defends what are considered liberal institutions in Europe but largely conservative ones in America: private property, free markets, individual liberty, freedom of conscience, and the rights of communities to determine for themselves how they will live within these guidelines.9

Virtue requires denying one's baser instincts—i.e., human nature—and doing what is right.

1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: "For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." 2.

Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.

7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

For the very notion of hardness of heart implies moral inability.

We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.

If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.23

There's more to morality than harm and fairness.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

We're born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about.

Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment—originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.18

So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? The

Generally, if you see Joe Ledger show up pointing a gun at you, I guess you start reexamining your conscience.

The line between immediate need and breaking the law is blurry at the best of times. And I'm not talking about the laws of states or nations. I'm talking about the laws of basic humanity.

It is universally better to obey God than Man when the laws of God and Man clash and interfere with one another.

No civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God. All such disobedience is lawful and glorious.

Guilt loves the passive.

All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end: and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.

Pendant qu'il se battait pour sa survie sur le front de l'Ouest, ils sont restés à mariner dans leur inconfortable confort, protégés par la chape de plomb de l'amère conscience de leur médiocrité.