Quotes about Conscience

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.

My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. 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. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects

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

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.