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Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and a...

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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just...

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Robert BoltA Man for All Seasons

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it d...

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You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less...

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Robert Louis StevensonDavid Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and ...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessa...

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Robert Penn WarrenThe Legacy of the Civil War

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the wor...

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...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accust...

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He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

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

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

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- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

Your burden is not to clear your conscienceBut to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of pe...

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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...

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Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, i...

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...

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Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an ...

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I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in th...

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This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels som...

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To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

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...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular ty...

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At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that consci...

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Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, th...

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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia...

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A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.

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

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

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...

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The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing ...

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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other p...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelMoral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscienc...

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But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it i...

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

. But itis obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it ...

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...

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The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling t...

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...

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It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear th...

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There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your...

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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you...

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Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a univer...

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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedu...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, t...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which th...

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...

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Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference betwee...

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We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same...

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In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate ...

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Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilt...

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The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of ou...

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Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature p...

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You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until ...

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Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound consc...

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The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . . .Humans are helpless to detach ...

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The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with fre...

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Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to ...

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Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide t...

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Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either c...

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Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious tran...

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God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a “still small voice” that will not let us go u...

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As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with percepti...

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There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy con...

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Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference betwee...

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We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same...

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In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate ...

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Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilt...

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The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of ou...

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Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature p...

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You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until ...

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Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound consc...

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