Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

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.

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

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.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

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

Guilt soon learns to lie.