Best conscience & wounds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.”

Conscience Wounds Loud Strokes Incessant

Book:Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

“O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!”

Littles Failing Pure Conscience Wounds Thee Faithful

Author:Dante Alighieri

“It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.”

Today Law Religion Christianity Conscience Wounds Preacher Imperatives Bandages

Book:Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?

Source: Today's Gospel: Authentic Or Synthetic?

“The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.”

Conscience Wounds Scar

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.”

Men Pain Fighting Attention Too Much Conditions Circumstances Conscience Wounds Remorse Vigor Old Wounds

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.”

Conscience Sake Blow Wounds

Book:Rob Roy

Source: Rob Roy

“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.”

Doe Shows Body Running Dangerous Conscience Stones Wounds Bullets Exhausting Brake Stags

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.”

World Soul Conscience Wounds Scar Blair

Author:Bob Geldof

“Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.”