#conscience

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#cannot #cast #conscience #down #evil

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#first #greatest #punishment #sin #sinner

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#between #catholicism #church #conscience #faith

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gallantry #more #politics #than

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#doing #england #enjoying #just #keep

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. ↗

— George A. Smith

#conscience #inclination #listening #lives #mind

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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#conscience #enjoyment #exercise #free #interest

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#herd-mentality #peer-pressure #reputation #science

You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theatres,and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience,whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together,corpse. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#corpses #hate #partnership #zombies #conscience

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. ↗

— Daniil Kharms

#prison #conscience