Own Conscience Quotes

63 quotes by 54 authors

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be… — Charlotte Bronte
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is.… — John G. Lake
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,… — George Washington
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey,… — Viktor E. Frankl
Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart,… — Pope Francis
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do… — Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. — Vaclav Havel
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience,… — Tariq Ramadan
And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows… — Gerry Spence
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the… — William Laud
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov
We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won… — Sidney Greenberg
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion… — Blanche Lincoln
We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. — Carl von Ossietzky
It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make… — Geoffrey Fieger
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything. — Jose Rizal
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… — Arthur Koestler

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