#conscience

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#conscience

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#judgement-day #conscience

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #conscience

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. ↗

— David Attenborough

#car #conscience #could #driving #environmentalist

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

#children #christ #conscience #entreat #fatherless

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#keeping #left #loses #nothing #person

But no man has a monopoly of conscience. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#man #monopoly

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ↗

— George Bancroft

#errors #full #lives #mirror #our