Quotes about Conscience

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.

He was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.

Given our disagreements over some points of the Bible, denominations are good, not bad, because they allow each church to follow Jesus according to conscience, and they keep strife between Christians of different convictions at bay. But if those denominations become the ultimate focus of our loyalty, then they are terrible idols. Keep clear fences but keep them low, and shake hands over them often.

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.