Quotes About Conscience

There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

He stared at me and the unconscious priest at my feet. "Hey," I said awkwardly, unable to imagine what he was thinking. Don't do this when you grow up , I wanted to tell him. Don't be like me .

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.

The natural faculties are not all that compose a person; God has, "in great mercy," left the conscience.1 Sibbes taught that the conscience in man acts as God's "vicar; a little god in us to do his office, to call upon us, direct us, check and condemn us.

He has done the best he could in a difficult situation, and his conscience is clean. It is far more important to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy, a lesson he learnt from a lanky man named Strider long ago

At the very least, given this symbolic process and its ideological consequences, mass incarceration's racial disparities will rarely provoke a crisis of conscience for those ensconced in white dominant society. To be sure, there will be some white analysts who insist that knowledge of the disparity and the conditions of mass incarceration should generate society-wide shame and so indict a whole society for the indignity and inhumanity that U.S. prison institutions have institutionalized.

Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.

Men of conscience have got to join together, Jack. Or nothing is going to change.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience. He is free to discover his own potential and pursue his own legitimate interests, tempered, however, by a moral order that has its foundation in faith and guides his life and all human life through the prudent exercise of judgment.

How do men think of such wickedness?" Anna asked as wax dripped down the candle and pooled about the holder. "Don't they fear for their souls?" Pino thought about Rauff and the Black Shirts wearing the hoods. "I don't think men like that care about their souls," Pino said, finishing the veal. "It's like they've already gone to evil, and going a little deeper won't matter.

Character is you doing what is right when no one is looking and no one will know.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Be good and you will be lonely.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

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

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.