conscience quotes

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

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.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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 a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

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.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.