Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.
Conscience is. . . the God dwelling in us.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much in the forefront of the American consciousness and the world consciousness today. Police misconduct was at the heart of the defense and Johnny Cochran did a masterful job at putting that defense at the forefront of the jury's conscience as opposed to the double homicide of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Brown Simpson].
My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.
The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.
A good conscience is eight parts of courage.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.