Quotes about Conscience
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
— John Piper
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
— John Wesley
Religion to Be a Part of Home Education—Home religion is fearfully neglected. Men and women show much interest in foreign missions. They give liberally to them and thus seek to satisfy their conscience, thinking that giving to the cause of God will atone for their neglect to set a right example in the home. But the home is their special field, and no excuse is accepted by God for neglecting this field.
— Ellen White
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
— Ellen White
The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience . Nothing is dearer or more fundamental.
— Ellen White
In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.
— Ellen White
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Do not suffer your good nature ... to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice
— George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
— George Washington
I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
— Mike Pence
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
— Joyce Meyer