#conscience

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus. ↗

— Rick Warren

#conscience #dogs #jesus #moral #nor

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ↗

— George Washington

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The conscience of the dying belies their life. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#dying #life #their

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#conscience #god #voice #you

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#curtain #evil #our #spirit #window