J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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

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

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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.

I've criticized myself over the years.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

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 its own readiest accuser.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

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.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.