Quotes about Conscience

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

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.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

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.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have earned.