 My conscience is captive to the Word of God. Author: Martin Luther |
| I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Author: Martin Luther |
| Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Author: Martin Luther |
| You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. Author: Martin Luther |
| An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. Author: Richard Baxter |
| Tenderness of conscience is always to be distinguished from scrupulousness. The conscience cannot be kept too sensitive and tender; but scrupulousness arises from bodily or mental infirmity, and discovers itself in a multitude of ridiculous, superstitious, and painful feelings. Author: Richard Cecil |
| 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. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.
- Nehemiah Adams Author: Assorted Authors |
