Quotes About Conscience

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

When we allow our conscience to be our guide, then our purpose in life will be fullfilled.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

You dont need religion to have morals. If you cant determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.

Every day we are faced with choices to make. Before making your choice, ask yourself the most basic question. Can you sleep at night with the choice you made?

Sincerity and honesty, are two words that will lead you on the right path... always be true to yourself!

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?

Happiness and sadness – veils of conscience between the brims of soul, of soul between the brims of hope of time.

San Josemaría criticaba la visión clerical que no distingue ámbitos —el orden natural y el sobrenatural, la Iglesia y el Estado, la religión y la política, etc.—, y sostenía que para la inmensa mayoría de los asuntos humanos no había una "solución católica", sino que cada cristiano elige la opción más conveniente según el dictado de su conciencia bien formada.

I am calm, as people are whose conscience are clear.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?