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Conscience Quotes


These are some of the best 'Conscience' quotations and sayings.


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A conscience void of offence, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

A man of integrity will never listen to any plea against conscience.

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

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself.

Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than of thine own conscience. - There is a Cato in every man - a severe censor of his manners. - And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

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

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Conscience is God's vicegerent on earth, and, within the limited jurisdiction given to it, it partakes of his infinite wisdom and speaks in his tone of absolute command. It is a revelation of the being of a God, a divine voice in the human soul, making known the presence of its rightful sovereign, the author of the law of holiness and truth.

Conscience is justice's best minister. It threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes, and keeps all under its control. - The busy must attend to its remonstrances; the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its up-braidings. - While conscience is our friend, all is peace; but if once offended, farewell to the tranquil mind.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.


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