Quotes about Conscience

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man [...] I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit.

Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.

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

I have tried so hard to do right.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.