Conscience Quotes
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
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I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
