Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.
Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you. " "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences. " "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?
