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Quotes about Conscience

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
- Frederick Douglass
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
- Philip Yancey
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
- Thomas Becket
But the law is good to edify, if a man use it lawfully: for that the end of it is charity, out of a pure heart and good conscience, and faith unfeigned.
- St. Augustine
Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity. For I stole that, of which I had enough, and much better. Nor cared I to enjoy what I stole, but joyed in the theft and sin itself.
- St. Augustine
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
- Martin Luther
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
- Booker T. Washington