Quotes about Conscience

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Long and personal familiarity with the application of Scripture was a key element in the Puritan ministerial makeup," Sinclair Ferguson writes. "They pondered the riches of revealed truth the way a gemologist patiently examines the many faces of a diamond." They used Scripture wisely, bringing cited texts to bear on the doctrine or case of conscience at hand, all based on sound hermeneutical principles.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have earned.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

A conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it....