Quotes About Conscience

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.

To see the right thing to do and not to do it is cowardice.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

Comment prendre part à leurs jugements sans être infidèle à sa propre enfance3 ? » Chaque fois que je fus « infidèle » à mon enfance, en prenant part à des jugements dépréciatifs, une sourde mauvaise conscience ne manqua jamais, tôt ou tard, de se manifester en moi.

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

He had a sudden twinge of conscience concerning his responsibilities at the seaside villa, but dismissed it as quixotic. What he was doing was harming no one, and the blessing and peace of it all was so great a boon. He had tried cutting it off drastically once, and the result had been an explosion of emotion he had no mind to precipitate again. What earthly need was there to give up his dream-woman who harmed nobody and helped him so tremendously?

More tears began to flow, but tears of rage this time. Mona was furious with herself, with Hugh, but above all, with Jelkes, whom she recognised as acting as a kind of conscience to the pair of them.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

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My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.