Conscience Quote by Roger Williams Download Open image “All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.” — Roger Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Ethics Men Plies Prudence War
“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor. This, indeed, is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.” — UNESCO Constitution Copy Share Image
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“But I am well aware of the excuse which men, ever ingenious in devising mischief to themselves as well as others, offer in extenuation of their conduct in going to war. They allege, that they are compelled to it; that they are dragged against their will to war. I answer them, deal fairly; pull off the mask; throw away all… — Anonymous Copy Share
“By guarding ourselves against the enemy’s thoughts, we permit righteous things to stay and contribute to the Lord’s will.” — Teresa Liebscher Copy Share Image
“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.” — Curtis Craddock Copy Share Image
“War still was the stern school where men learnt virtue, duty, forgetfulness of self, faithfulness unto death.” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured, brave men abandon peace for war when they are injured, returning to an understanding on a favourable opportunity: in fact, they are neither intoxicated by their success in war, nor disposed to take an injury for the sake… — Thucydides Copy Share
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace Copy Share Image
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England. That either part or partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his… — Roger Williams Copy Share
It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .… — John Bunyan Copy Share
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image