Pastoral Resources

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

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

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

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.