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Conscience Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
- If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is…
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
- Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should…
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a…
More Conscience Quotes
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock