Quotes about Conscience
Compassion: she suffered with. Companion: she broke bread with. Conspiracy: she breathed with. Conscience: she knew with. And finally, consistent with this ethic of imitation.
- James Carroll
The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.
- James Madison
They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.
- Dorothy Sayers
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
- Confucius
You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened.
- Eric Metaxas
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either 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 are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
- Randy Alcorn
tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
- Randy Alcorn
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
- Ravi Zacharias
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.
- John Tillotson
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Joseph Addison