Our Consciences Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but…
— Lottie Moon
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In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more…
— Bob Hawke
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What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head…
— Kenny Smith
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Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to…
— Timothy Pickering
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The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake…
— Joost Meerloo
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules…
— George Herbert
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I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we…
— Maria Monk
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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of…
— Randy Alcorn
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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our…
— D. A. Carson
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Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.
— Alistair Begg
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for…
— Alfred de Vigny
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
— Robert E. Lee
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes…
— Martin Luther
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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the…
— Muhammad Yunus
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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Our Consciences Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Our Consciences Quotes as follows: