Quotes about Conscience

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Of two evils, choose neither.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.