J. C. Ryle Quotes

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

I have a very clear conscience.

My conscience is clean.

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.