Hosea Ballou Quotes

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

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

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

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.