Quotes About Conscience

There is no mountain so heavy as the guilt of the least sin is to an awakened conscience.

Every sin thou committest is a new line that the devil draws on thy soul.

Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings.

A man may outlive many wounds received in the arms or legs, but a stab in the heart or other vital parts is the certain messenger of death approaching. Thus righteousness and holiness preserve the principal part of a Christian —his soul and conscience.

O guilt is an embit tering thing! It keeps the soul in a continual fear of hearing ill news from heaven; and a soul in fear is not in case to relish the sweetness of a mercy.

In the end, it comes down, as it always comes down, to each individual human being doing what he—or she—must to live with himself/herself.

really believed what he wrote in The Gulag Archipelago: "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties . . . but right through every human heart" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918–56 [Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1973]).

We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.

I do not think... that any man has the right to take life. When he thinks he has he is at his most dangerous.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

How lonely life is when one prefers money to morals.

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

Conscience was a devil that plagued the individual. Collectively, a people squashed it as easily as stepping on a daisy.

I sat on the steps of my father's church thinking how much I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The delicious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The de licious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal -- and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times.

La conciencia del creyente necesita ser educada por el Espíritu de Dios a través de la Palabra de Dios. De

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences.

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences. Does he want them to gather dust?' There

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.