Pastoral Resources

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.