Quotes about Conscience

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.

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.

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.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Happiness is a moral obligation.