Our Conscience Quotes
61 quotes by 51 authors
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious…
— Frances Perkins
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We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
— Sydney J. Harris
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We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims…
— Lidia Yusupova
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We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his…
— Dennis Quaid
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Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep…
— Price Pritchett
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... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of…
— Barack Obama
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When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
— J C Ryle
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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…
— Thomas Merton
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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my…
— Albert Schweitzer
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When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else,…
— Myles Munroe
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
— Peter Akinola
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We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever…
— Pope Francis
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As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
— James Russell Lowell
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
— Caspar Weinberger
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Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
— Billy Graham
Who Wrote These Our Conscience Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 61 Our Conscience Quotes, led by these top contributors: