Quotes About Conscience

Do not be your own devil.

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho' awkwardly, for his Word's sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;A brother's murder!

And then it started like a guilty thingUpon a fearful summons.

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.