#consciences

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. ↗

— John Frame

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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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Evil societies always kill their consciences. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. ↗

— Robert Casey

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