C. S. Lewis Quotes

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

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

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.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.