Quotes About Conscience

You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace.

I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient.

Ob?udoval sem oba; kako težjo je biti ?lovek. Da nenehno zatajuješ svoje želje. Da te skrbi, ali boš naredil, kar je prav, namesto, da bi naredil, kaj bi najraje.

At birth, a child has no functioning conscience, nor does a baby or pretoddler have the reasoning capacity to grasp right and wrong, good and evil. That does not mean parents should delay introducing required and acceptable behavior. For example, the fact that a child has no moral understanding of why food should not be intentionally dropped from his highchair does not mean parents should hold back instruction or fail to discourage the behavior.

If we take morality seriously, then we must confront what it dictates: if it is wrong for Simon to torture dogs for pleasure, then it is morally wrong for us to eat meat.

With the heart at stake, right and wrong is a stake through the heart.

Guilt is a relative term, as are fairness, justice, and punishment.

Virtue is acting naturally, doing the right thing without thinking "I'm doing the right thing!" Righteousness is acting unnaturally, following rigid rules or commandments that all too often make us a worse, rather than a better, person.

It was hard for him to insist, because it hurt her, and because he knew it would drive her away. But he couldn't string a woman along anymore. He felt like a rat, but a rat at peace with itself.

when she contemplated marrying him—when she even contemplated sleeping with him—though some clear voice in her mind shouted "No!," she thought the voice could be overruled.

And then I remembered the truck my aunt had stolen, and I wondered if my aunt was rich or if she'd just stolen from rich people, or if there was a difference. My aunt, I suspected, would say that there was no difference. As for John Calvin, he once said that "the torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The truth is there is no Devil making you torture, rape, murder, and sodomize one another, or making you destroy the very land that feeds you. There is only you.

J.C. Ryle faithfully observed that "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as his peace.

They live in the gap between what's right and what's possible.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Most voters disown selfish motives. They personally back the policies that are best for the country, ethically right, and consistent with social justice. At the same time, they see other voters—not just their opponents, but often their allies too—as deeply selfish. The typical liberal Democrat says he votes his conscience, and

There is nothing more effective than guilt to get people to obey God's standards, and nothing less efficacious in sanctifying them to God.

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.

I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.