There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy...

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand — they only. Know this at last.

Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave “bye-bye” to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader’s resolve to fight the good fight.

If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.

You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.’Risa closes her eyes. She...

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don’t trip…allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has...

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Real action without the passion is difficult, but the real passion without the compassion is impossible.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.

The truth may roar, but it’s roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is...

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

The move, just like lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet, defies human justice and conscience and will ultimately not be of benefit to Japan itself.

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience,...

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Do not let your conscience be clouded by unknown storms. Trust in the atmosphere of spirit that breathes so calmly deep within you at all times.

Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray–where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.

This book attempts to record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a...

It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it’s really a technicality. I can’t in good conscience tell them they can’t. It’s just not fair.

I can’t in good conscience be a member of a board that is so blatantly politically driven by special-interest groups,

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it’ll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

His conscience got the better of him. And he’s prepared to let the law take its course.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you’ve acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you’ve exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

I couldn’t kill him. I couldn’t live with that on my conscience

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and...

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

There is no conscience in a real war.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

No one should use flattery, it is another way to engage in prostitution; difference is that a sex worker sells her body, but a flatterer his/her conscience. It is not surprising to see such people,...

Atticus, you must be wrong.” “How’s that?” “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong. . .” “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,”...

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

I have no conscience at all — least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down...

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

I am a Christian, but my time in Iraq has convinced me that God doesn’t want to hear from me anymore. I’ve done things that He can never forgive. I’ve done them consciously. I’ve made...