Conscience Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Ethics Gods will Light
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man. — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The conscience is a wisdom guide to hide nothing inside or anything outside, but to constantly shed its illuminating light upon everything lying aside,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Conscience is a cleansed science to control mind and comfort heart to remain connected to the soul. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton 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 Image
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… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
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… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
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