Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.
The conscience is more wise than science.
I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
My conscience is captive to the Word of God
Conscience is the pulse of reason
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
The aim is freedom conscience and truth
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good 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.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.