Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is God present in man.

The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing.

I follow my gut and the prompting of my spirit in all things, small and big.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

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

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

In order to find Jesus, every one of us needs direction. God gives it. The story of the wise men shows us how. The star sign was enough to lead the magi to Jerusalem. But it took Scripture to lead them to Jesus.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.