Quotes about Conscience
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
— St. Augustine
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
— Romans 7:16
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
— George Washington
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
— William Barclay
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
— John Bunyan
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
— Martin Luther
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
— DA Carson
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
— William Temple
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
— Mother Teresa