Conscience  ……  is called the Representative of the Creator.

– Gurdjieff

 

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing, but that we cannot prevent from barking.

– Nicolas de Chamfort

 

Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.

– Vincent van Gogh

 

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

– Mme. de Stael

 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
– George Washington

 

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

– Harper Lee

 

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice,  politics without principle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

 

One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

– George Sand

 

My conscience is captive to the Word of God.  I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

– Martin Luther

 

Every action of man is good in the objective sense, if it is done according to his conscience, and every action is bad, if from it he later experiences remorse.

– Gurdjieff

 

The conscience is the interior place for listening to the truth, to goodness, for listening to God.

– Pope Francis

Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.

– St. Paul (Romans 2:14-15)

 

The conscience is the interior place for listening to the truth, to goodness, for listening to God.

– St. Bonadventure

 

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

–Leo Tolstoy

 

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

–Robert South

 

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience.

–Pope Francis