Quotes about Conscience
If conscience is to do its work and the contrite heart is to feel its proper remorse, it is necessary for each individual to confess his sin by name. The confession must be intensely personal. In a meeting of ministers, probably no single sin should be acknowledged with deeper shame than the sin of prayerlessness. Each one of us needs to confess that we are guilty of this.
— Andrew Murray
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.
— John Bunyan
The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it.
— John Calvin
It lays down a clear distinction between spiritual and civil government, in order to inform us that outward subjection does not prevent us from having within us a conscience free in the sight of God.
— John Calvin
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and occasionally enlarges, that all to a man being aware that there is a God, and that he is their Maker, may be condemned by their own conscience when they neither worship him nor consecrate their lives to his service.
— John Calvin
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
— John Calvin
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
— John Calvin
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
— Henry David Thoreau
The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us
— Pope Francis
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
— William James