Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Conscience is God’s presence in humans.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem’d the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

My conscience aches but it’s going to lose the fight.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav’n pursue.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
Carries his own accuser in his breast.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem’d the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

My conscience aches but it’s going to lose the fight.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav’n pursue.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
Carries his own accuser in his breast.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.