Pastoral Resources

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.