Quotes About Conscience

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

she never knew when she might offend this inner harpy, Conscience, unwittingly: and lived in terror of those brazen claws, should she ever let it be hatched from the egg.

to highlight the immorality of Germans abandoning their moral duty to think.

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. —WILLIAM TEMPLE

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. —WILLIAM TEMPLE To

Keep in mind that right and wrong are not matters of opinion. They are principles we must discover and apply. They are laws of biology for intelligent species

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

there is one thing we all take from granted: from hunter-gatherers to the Pope, we all live by a moral compass.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

Just because we want something doesn't mean it's right

Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.

We are Code Jiminy.

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Having been born to wealth, stealing doesn't fret me as much as it does him.

sin' is rarely concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin—and when you grok with him, it can hurt. I know.