The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
A satellite has no conscience.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
