Quotes About Conscience

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear, Sin and Doubt

Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.