Pastoral Resources

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

A satellite has no conscience.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.