Anne Bronte Quotes

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Each person is his own judge.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

I just think that only God will judge a person's heart.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.