Quotes about Conscience
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
- Stephen Covey
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
- Edmund Burke
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
- David O. McKay
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
- AW Pink
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
- Os Guinness
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
- Origen
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner