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Quotes About Conscience

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
~ C. S. Lewis
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
~ Allan Kardec
Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
~ Philip Neri
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
~ Winkie Pratney
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.
~ Theodore Parker
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
~ Bayard Rustin
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
~ Lee Greenwood
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
~ Andy Stanley
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
~ Socrates
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.
~ Francis Schaeffer
He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.
~ John Owen
Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.
~ Caroline Myss
I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.
~ Steve Harvey
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
~ Dwight Frye
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
~ Margaret Cavendish
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
~ Oswald Chambers
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?
~ Robert Pollok
Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
~ Rumi
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
~ John Tillotson
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
~ Anne Bradstreet