Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Conscience
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.
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Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
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There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
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Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
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Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
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