Best conscience & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.”

People May Government Desire Hours Liberty Rights Protect Conscience England Preserves

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”

Men Desire Strong Interest Half Enemy Watches Break Masters Conscience Fellows Violent Crush Gates Approval Dread Herds Vigilant Censure

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.”

Men Desire Politician Ambition Conscience Skins Improvement Fortunate Rapids Vehement Sanguine

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.”

Desire Please Conscience Admire Cripples

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.”

Desire Conscience Calm Conversion

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?”

Want Heart Might Desire Break Conscience Devices

Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.”

Should Desire Father Son Masters Conscience Servant Approval

Author:Ambrose

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

Enough Spirit Desire Holy Healthy Conscience Holy Spirit

Book:When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

Source: When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.”

Ifs Heart Helping Desire Lord Integrity Conscience Determination Dues Subtle Sincerity Temper Examination Our Lord Snares Bad Temper

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”

Mind Heart Life Is Desire Courses Childhood My Heart Shapes Conscience Pressure Determined Backgrounds

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”

Men Desire Strong Conscience Weak Ill

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.”

Knows Should Littles Moments Desire Waiting Space Perfect Percent Conscience Guilty Settling Lasting Closets Convenience Guilty Conscience

Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.”

Source: Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”

Humans Mean Reason Desire Ambition Conscience Dignity Patriotism Rulers Simplest Human Dignity Obtaining Abdication

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.”

People Believe Political Desire Justice Conscience Built Profound Fruit Communion Day To Day Participation Vocation Democratization

Author:Adolfo Perez Esquivel

“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”

People Inspirational Should Done Light Eye Action Desire Opinion Virtue Conscience Theater Witness Avoided Public Eye Praiseworthy Good Actions Ostentation

Book:Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]

Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]

“It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.”

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Author:John Paul Stevens

“I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.”

Source: Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

“God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.”

Desire Degrees Conscience Saint Purity Chastity Purity

Author:John of the Cross

“All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.”

Source: The Importance of Living

“One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God”

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