Quotes about Conscience

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.