Quotes About Conscience

Despite spending a whole day on it, my end result read like every boilerplate in the handbook. What church didn't want a superb preacher with a lively intellect and a contagious sense of humor? Who didn't want a warm presence with a progressive social conscience, the management skills of a corporate CEO, and the work-life boundaries of a New Age life coach?

Sin is when you aim for the mark (righteousness) and miss it; transgression is when you acknowledge the mark but choose to do your own thing anyway.

however peaceful you may wish to be, we all have the responsibility to rise up against evil.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

serial killers act out their fantasies. They have no conscience to inhibit them.

Like all serial killers, Bongani's father was emotionally absent to him as a little boy. He never had the chance to identify with a father figure at the beginning of the latency phase, which should commence at about six years. This is the time when children go to school, socialise and incorporate society's moral and ethical values and this marks the development of a conscience, or superego as Freud called it.

Freud's theory on the topological structure of the psyche, namely the id, ego and superego, provides an answer to my second question, namely the lack of an inhibiting censor, such as a conscience, to prevent the serial killer from acting out his fantasy.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

Vocês homens têm esse lado de conflito interior, que veneram. Por dever de consciência, suportam inimigos e abandonam amigos.

Constantine proclaimed that everyone should be allowed to live according to his conscience, without fear.13

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Don't do what I do but what you think is right. But whatever you do, you can't keep yourself from getting hurt. The heart doesn't seem to work that way.

She didn't mean to be critical, but after the words came from her mouth, they sounded harsh, and she was sorry.

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.

So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.

Rob not, act against the robber, Not great is one who is great in greed.

He who is silent toward violence diminishes the offerings.

Beware of punishing wrongfully, Do not kill, it does not serve you.

Jesus invited people to 'repent and believe' this Good News; to set aside fear and worry in order to believe in God's love; and to reject self-centeredness in order to give loving service to others. Jesus insisted, says Karl Baus, that purity of mind and intention is the basis for moral behavior, 'thus giving the individual conscience the decisive role in the sphere of religion.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.