Quotes About Conscience

But the forgiveness of guilt, the heavenly indulgence, does away with the heart's fear and timidity before God; it makes the conscience lighthearted and merry inwardly13 and reconciles a person with God.

Indeed, if pride would cease there would be no sin anywhere.

They contemplate Christ's passion properly who look at it with a terrified heart and a despairing conscience.

For if we allow sin to remain in our conscience and try to deal with it there, or if we look at sin in our heart, it will be much too strong for us and will live on forever. But if we see that it rests on Christ and is overcome by his resurrection, and then boldly believe this, then sin is dead and nullified.

But what is so utterly foreign to many is the experience of falling in love with God. Religion, for them, is an intellectual exercise rooted in the individual conscience, rather than a response to a God who holds out a hand to say, 'Let's have an adventure!

If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.

If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it.

After the Reichstag fire, Hannah Arendt wrote that "I was no longer of the opinion that one can simply be a bystander.

lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Wyatt didn't necessarily aim to be a saint in Dodge City, but being less of a sinner could be a more satisfying life. There

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

You found during apartheid a strange occurrence from the white folks themselves. There were those who did make a choice to speak out and stand and be counted in the army of human beings who believed in justice. And then there are those who left.

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo