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Source: The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)

“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.”

Mean Social Grows Change Conditions Eternal Conscience Radical Social Change Vessel Social Life Radical Change Social Conditions

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”

I Can Helping Truth Lying Can Do Honor Integrity Safe Conscience Safety Help Me Amen God Help Me Honor And Integrity No Integrity

Author:Martin Luther

“Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.”

Ends Lasts Dies Justice Eternal Conscience Temporary

Author:Martin Luther

“You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.”

Should Believe Feelings Lord Conscience Sinner

Author:Martin Luther

“One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.”

Important Done Religious Regret Conscience Errors Manage Theme Remove

Author:Ian Mcewan

“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

Children School Religion Spirituality Evil Parent Family Conscience Prison Sunday Penance Sunday School Sunday School Teacher

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

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

Ends Law Mother Literature Freedom Conscience Cynical In-laws Mother In Law

Author:H. L. Mencken

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

Life Humor Might Funny Voice Freedom Conscience Inner Voice

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

War Humanity Peace Difficult Perfect Greater Sacrifice Demand Conscience Labor Purity Heroic Antiwar Heroism Fidelity Achieving Peace

Book:The Nonviolent Alternative

Source: The Nonviolent Alternative

“The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.”

Ifs Strong Conscience Guides

Author:Joyce Meyer

“God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.”

Reason Done Might Action Levels Wise Listening Lows Conscience Misery Our Actions Nudge Offending Uneasiness Low Level

Author:Joyce Meyer

“You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.”

Want Soul Whole Body Spirit Jesus Emotion Conscience Complexes Heal

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

Knows Giving Freedom Liberty Conscience Argument Give Me Arguing Censorship Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Civil Liberties Freedom Of Expression Intellectual Freedom Freedom To Read Liberty Of Speech

Author:John Milton

“Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.”

Our Lives Conflict Conscience Confusion Abiding Anchors Turmoil Daily Living Abiding Faith

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”

Inspirational Mind Funny Peace Conscience Tranquility Farewell Offended Tranquil Goodbye Farewell Saying Farewell Farewell Friend Farewell Love Offended You

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”

Stuff Understanding Memories Education Conscience Labor Void

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”

Persons Loses Honor Conscience

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.”

States Asks Conscience Georgia Anything And Everything

Author:Michael Moore

“Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.”

America Space Progress Conscience Primitive Technological Deep Down Refinement Simulation Bluffs

Book:America

Source: America

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

Philosophy Body Truth Perception Conscience Evidence Medicine Senses Credibility Credible Soma Five Senses Truth Of God

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”

Evil Judging Conscience Ideals Inexorable

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”

Reason Causes Judgment Conscience Praise Blame Exposed Underestimated Undeserving

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.”

Thinking Believe Heart Spirit Speak Heaven Talking Holy Conscience Holy Spirit Believe In God Chill Bumps

Author:Joel Osteen

“But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.”

Thinking Made I Can Soul Names Conscience Guilt Sake My Soul Folly Despise Submit Foe Sincerely Malice

Author:James Otis

“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.”

Children Evil Results Moral Influence Conscience Notion Breathe Atmosphere Guidance Good And Evil Surround

Author:Jean Paul

“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”

Knows Men Heart Doe Law Purpose Humanity Turns Wish Voice Society Conscience Men And Women Catholic Christian Inspirational Humanity And Society Rule Of Law Engraved

Author:Pope John Paul II

“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”

Men Should Heart Done Action Young Fighting Poverty Doubt Conscience Men And Women Young Man Hopeless Hopelessness Zoos Being Done

Author:Abbe Pierre

“Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

Men Firsts Self Form Awareness Exercise Degrees Conscience Men And Women Adversity Self Awareness Extras Fasting Identifying

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.”

Needs Real Spirit Order Challenges Deals Study Century Conscience Sacred Atheist Thinker Timeless 21st Century Responding Sacred Texts

Author:Tariq Ramadan

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

May Hell Food Healthy Taste Conscience Cooking Be Good Complaining Culinary Health Food Oreos

Author:Robert Redford

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Way Doe Art Soul Feelings Dream Film Dark Rooms Conscience Filmmaker Deep Down Dark Room Film Directors Movie Director Art Films Film Directing Directing Film Film And Music

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

People Funny Letting Go Humorous Conscience Guides Lawyer Smarter Getting High

Book:Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

Source: Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

“Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.”

Firsts Children Action Christian Force Nations Causes Waiting Born Religious Justice Compassion Liberty Greater Conscience Mercy Sick Constitution Needy Persecuted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.”

Men Feels Firsts Government Nations Religious Liberty Design Authority Highest Conscience Constitution Upset Trusted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.”

Firsts Order President Religious Liberty Conscience Organization President Obama Regulation Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

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

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.”

People Religious Liberty Rights Lows Conscience Obsession Administration Mandates Religious Liberty

Author:Marco Rubio

“Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.”

Mean Home Political Party Conscience Vote Agree Beach Blank Casting Abstention

Author:Jose Saramago

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”

Knows Conscience Who You Are Great Business

Author:Howard Schultz

“I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.”

“Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”

Conscience Debt Compensation Forgetfulness Gift From God Forgetful Debtors Owing A Debt

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

Knows Love Young Love Is Love You Conscience

Book:The Sonnets

Source: The Sonnets

“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”

Dangerous Conscience Dangerous Things Bigots

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

Men Action Social Freedom Clear Conscience Mercy Talkers

Book:Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

Source: Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

“The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.”

Inspirational Enjoy Conscience England New England

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

Fear Economy Virtue Subjects Conscience Economics Vices Excess Regulation

Author:Adam Smith

“What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

Men Life Motivational Happiness Joy Clear Positive Laughter Conscience Debt Clear Conscience

Author:Adam Smith

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