Charles Hodge Quotes

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Life is moral responsibility.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Do what you should, not what you may.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

All a man can betray is his conscience.