Quotes About Conscience

Nature her custom holds,Let shame say what it will.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Conscience is but a word that cowards use,Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

A peace above all earthly dignities,A still and quiet conscience.

I am Thane of Cawdor:If good, why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hairAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature? Present fearsAre less than horrible imaginings.

Out, damned spot out, I say

The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

There are those in high office who talk pompously of 'limited nuclear strikes' and 'acceptable risks' of tens of millions of casualties, but I suggest that anyone capable of such bizarre calculations is patently insane – in the old legal meaning of insanity as loss of conscience, or moral disability.

No white man is innocent. I am not innocent.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

You know inside whether it's right. But you still have to choose to do it.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad of it. The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a clear conscience on the third planet of the Sun.

Although you may argue that it is not wrong to steal from others, the nature within you protests whenever you are tempted to steal. Even bank robbers will admit that, as they rob banks, their nature tells them, "Don't do this." However, they will not listen. It is the same with every evil-doer. Whenever they do something wrong, their nature disagrees. We need to observe the requirements of the nature within us.

Our conscience protests [39] continually. When you argue with your parents, the conscience says, "Don't do this." If you offend your parents, your conscience will trouble you for three nights. Every husband seeking to divorce his wife will also be convicted by his conscience. All men have a conscience. This is a great matter. In the normal Christian life we must all take care of our conscience in a suitable way.

We have seen the five items in the way of restriction: knowing God by His creation, holding the truth of God in righteousness, living according to our nature, listening to our conscience, and caring for our proper reasonings. If we observe all these things, we will be restricted from every kind of evil.