The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.
Due to the monstrous activity of a handful of extremists, the majority of the human society has been conditioned to believe that the term 'musalman' is somehow synonymous with terrorism. But the reality is, the term 'musalman' refers to someone with 'musallam iman,' that means, a pure conscience. Thus any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves his or her neighbor is a Christian. Hence, scriptures can't define your religion, only your actions with other people do.
God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness - God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.
No text, being human creation, is free from flaws _ it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.
Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.
Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.
Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not__ntender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we are more__esigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it__o it's more of a__ disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.
To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what__ not quite right is quite wrong.
I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.
In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt
More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God - or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?
I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.