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Category: Sin and Conscience

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1. "To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything."

Jose Rizal

Quotations about: God and Religion

2. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Human -:- Justice

3. "A fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue."

John Schaar

Quotations about: Various

4. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

gen. Omar Bradley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Peace and War

5. "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "I have no conscience, Adolf Hitler is my conscience. "

Hermann Göring

7. "Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

Anon.

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Work and Laziness

8. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."

Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3

Quotations about: Forgiveness

9. "God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there."

Max Lucado

Quotations about: God and Religion

10. "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."

French proverb

11. "Anger is one of the sinners of the soul."

Thomas Fuller

Quotations about: Anger

12. "In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."

Dutch proverb

13. "Conscience is God's presence in man."

Emanuel Swedenborg

Quotations about: God and Religion

14. "Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

15. "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

16. "Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Various

17. "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

Bertrand Russell, "Sceptical Essays"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

18. "All sins are attempts to fill voids."

Simone Weil, "Gravity and Grace"

19. "He who has no shame has no conscience."

English proverb

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

20. "Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited."

Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: God and Religion

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21. "Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."

English proverb

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

22. "The decalogue is too short in comparison to means of making sins."

Lidia Jasinska

23. "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:27-28

24. "Greed is the mother of all sins."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

25. "Innocence is always unsuspicious."

Joseph Joubert

26. "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Authority, Government

27. "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

28. "Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

André Gide

30. "All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

Ernest Hemingway

31. "Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

32. "Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."

Josh Billings

33. "Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Kin Hubbard

34. "Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

35. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

Jesus Christ, John 8:7

36. "God creates out of nothing. [...] but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, "The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection"

Quotations about: God and Religion

37. "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

38. "Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before or after it has been reached: yet both aspects are real."

Samuel Butler

39. "Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."

Henry Louis Mencken

40. "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Various

41. "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."

Henry Louis Mencken

42. "Love the sinner and hate the sin."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Love

43. "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."

Mahatma Gandhi

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