Quotes about Conscience
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.
- RC Sproul Jr.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
- Amy Grant
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
- Henry B. Eyring
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Transcendentalists have been accused of being rebels and rule-breakers. But if they disregard society's customs and laws, it's because they're listening to conscience and obeying the Law Maker within. There are situations where virtue asks us to break the rules.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the sermon, that most flexible of art forms. Take the form of the sermon and make it your own. Whether you are standing behind a pulpit, in a lecture hall, or in a field, nothing can stop you from speaking the truth according to your life and conscience. The hearts of the people are thirsty for new hope and new revelation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.
- Randy Alcorn
Tolstoy said, "The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience." Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, go hungry, are abused and exploited, or go to Hell.
- Randy Alcorn
Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.
- Ravi Zacharias
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.
- Ravi Zacharias