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Quotes About Conscience

When men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can keep them isolated: neither walls of prisons nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity, will sustain them all.
~ Fidel Castro
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
~ Flavius Josephus
They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask only that we be permitted to decide upon these plans for ourselves; that we not be forced to accept them, directly or indirectly, if we find them to be contrary to our best interests or repugnant to our consciences.
~ Frederic Bastiat
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. What are the consequences of such a perversion? ... In the first place, it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice...When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
~ Frederic Bastiat
You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend in every instance to all kinds of degradation and demoralization.
~ Frederic Bastiat
You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend in every instance to all kinds of degradation and demoralization. We
~ Frederic Bastiat
2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.
~ Fr. Anthony J. Paone
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
~ Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
~ Francois Rabelais
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
~ Francois Rabelais
But Wine doesn't make anything go away! When you bury a big memory it's always still there, like an itch right down inside your bones where you can't scratch it, or somebody walking a step behind you that you can't look at. And . . . and if we didn't remember things we wish we hadn't done, wouldn't we just run off and do them again?
~ Frances Hardinge
1. Responsabilidad
~ Francesc Miralles
We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.
~ Billy Graham
Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.
~ Billy Graham
If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.
~ Billy Graham
The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life.
~ Billy Graham
If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God.
~ Billy Graham
God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a "still small voice" that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice—[but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
~ Billy Graham
Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.
~ Billy Graham
True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.
~ Billy Graham
Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man.
~ Billy Graham
Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory—the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a "sixth sense"—the ability to believe, to have faith.
~ Billy Graham
God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with free, life-giving discoveries in nature, the human conscience, Scripture, and the Person of Jesus Christ.
~ Billy Graham