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Conscience Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
- The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and…
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
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- 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