Quotes about Conscience

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.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

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.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.