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God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit. — Beth Moore

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give
you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience. — Thomas Brooks

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. — John Bunyan

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure. — Susan Sontag

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience. — Sean Combs

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden

According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice. — Timothy Keller

Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery, — Catherine Jones Payne

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts... — Tove Jansson

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it. — Joyce Meyer

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience. — Amit Abraham

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ... — Ambrose Bierce

He had a clear conscience. Never used it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. — Walter Lippmann

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

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience. — Robert D. Hare

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. — Fernando Pessoa

Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one. — David Crockett

A hard penis has no conscience. — Matthew Hardy

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue. — Lambert Of Maastricht

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray. — Maurice Druon

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Edmund Burke

The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace. — Dean Koontz

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha Stout

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. — Seneca The Younger

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life. — Billy Graham

Conscience is a Jewish invention. — Adolf Hitler

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. — Evan Esar

It's a sin only if conscience confirmed it. — Toba Beta

Big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience. — Orhan Pamuk

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? — John Tillotson

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. — George Herbert

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God. — Tryon Edwards

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience. — Robin Sharma

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself. — Honore De Balzac

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. — Robert Ludlum

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear. — Sharon Kay Penman

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean. — Sheryl Crow

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James Fenimore Cooper

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. — Bonnie Raitt

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform. — Coretta Scott King

That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience.. — Adam Hochschild

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience. — Justin Alcala

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. — Victor Hugo

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. — Ellen Glasgow

He's using you as his external, aftermarket conscience. — James S.A. Corey

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience. — John Milton

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. — Joan D. Vinge

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God — Michael L. Brown

A man in loss is not a man to trust. — Auliq Ice

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving. — Richard Whately

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character. — Saru Singhal

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. — Tom Clancy

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience. — Wilhelm Frick

5But the goal of our einstruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. — Anonymous

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money. — P.Sainath

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

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. — Carolyn Wells

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. — Richard Alleine

Public opinion is a second conscience. — William R. Alger

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. — Budd Schulberg

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

I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ... — Stephen King

A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition. — Philippa Gregory

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience. — Roger Brooke Taney

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. — J.C. Ryle

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience. — Bono

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. — Albert Schweitzer

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith

The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem — Rajasaraswathii

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. — Martina Boone

Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash. — David Mitchell

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. — Harvey MacKay

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths. — John Connolly