Home / Topics / Conscience Quotes

Conscience Quotes

Browse 3008 quotes about Conscience.

Conscience Quotes

“The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.”

Ifs Men May Christ Dangerous Devil Conscience Overcoming Glad Doctrine Certainty Disputes Solace Doubtful Serpent Steadfast

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Trouble Benefits Devil Conscience Advantage Slave Liberalism Devices Expenses Wages Cunning

Book:Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

Source: Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

“To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.”

World Giving Hell Grace Devil Conscience Dare Revenge Pits Vow Allegiance Damnation Negligence Hamlet Ophelia Hamlet Revenge

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.”

Years Evil Balance Draws Devil Conscience Accounts Debt Sixty Sixteen

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.”

Believe Devil Conscience Including Foreheads

Book:Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

“The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.”

Thinking May Eye Pain Responsibility Quiet Devil Conscience Invention His Eyes Visible Permit

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”

Ifs Men Trying Littles Sometimes Sports Sin Answers Company Drink Jokes Devil Conscience Drinking Temptation Beer Spite Nonsense Merry Trifles Short Beer

Author:Martin Luther

“I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.”

Ifs Sin Hell Devil Conscience Remembered Go To Hell Biting Unconfessed Sin

Book:Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal

Source: Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal

“The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.”

Quiet Devil Conscience Invention

Author:Albert Schweitzer