Quotes about Conscience

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do—and I have done it—and God forgives me for it.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!