Quotes about Conscience

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

Right is more precious than peace.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.