Quotes about Conscience
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
— Thomas a Kempis
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
— Charles Spurgeon
Gordon could ignore his conscience, but he could not disregard the Almighty.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
Neither can one who wills the Good do so out of fear of punishment. In essence, this is the same thing as willing the Good for the sake of a reward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
— CS Lewis
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
— Harry S. Truman
The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.
— George W. Bush
Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
— Euripides
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Long and personal familiarity with the application of Scripture was a key element in the Puritan ministerial makeup," Sinclair Ferguson writes. "They pondered the riches of revealed truth the way a gemologist patiently examines the many faces of a diamond." They used Scripture wisely, bringing cited texts to bear on the doctrine or case of conscience at hand, all based on sound hermeneutical principles.
— Joel Beeke