Quotes About Conscience

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient

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

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

I know what sin is.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Sir Richard Attenborough was a wonderful human being and an amazing actor and director. He was a British who really loved India, its people, the culture and the conscience. He lived a great life.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.