Quotes About Conscience

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

But the secret of it all-in-all,' continued the Sergeant, 'is the daily readings. Attend to your daily readings and your conscience will be as clear as a clean shirt on Sunday morning. I am a great believer in the daily readings.

I can smell the sin on your breath.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there otherwise.

I'm a fan of anything that's good, especially when it's conscientiously good.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

There are people with Asperger's whom I've met who certainly would be very upset to learn they'd hurt another person's feelings. They often have very strong moral consciences and moral codes. They care about not hurting people.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.