Muhammad Quotes

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him

On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.