Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.
Le donne sono fatte così. Ogni giorno che sorge porta loro una nuova interpretazione del passato. Dev'essere una vita poco monotona la loro.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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 behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
