Joseph Cook Quotes

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

People don't think of themselves as evil.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Conscience is the pulse of reason

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.

There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime