Quotes about Conscience

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.