CONSCIENCE - Importance

良心 - 重要性

Conscience is to the soul as the stomach is to the body.

Thomas Adams

良心對靈魂而言,正如同身體中的胃一般。

Knowledge directs conscience; conscience perfects knowledge.

Thomas Adams

知識導引良心;良心臻益知識。

A good conscience is a soft pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

無愧的良心,是最好的軟枕。

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

Stanisław I Leszczyński

良心在成為審判者懲罰我們之前,會先作為朋友警告我們。

Conscience is a man's judgement of himself, according to the judgement of God of him.

Thomas Aquinas

良心是人照著神對他的審判,來對自己的審判。

A good conscience is the palace of Christ, the temple of the Holy Ghost, the paradise of delight, the standing sabbath of the saints.

Augustine

美好的良心,是基督的宮殿,是聖靈的聖殿,是喜樂的樂園,是聖徒安息的安息日。

Of all human experiences, the most universal is a bad conscience.

James Denney

在所有人生的經歷中,最普遍的就是有個不良的良心。

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

Billy Graham

我們大多數人跟隨良心,就像跟隨手推車一樣;我們把它推到我們想去的方向前面。

Better to have a dog that will, by his barking, tell us a thief is in our yard, than one that will sit still and let us be robbed before we have any notice of our danger.

William Gurnall

寧可有一隻狗,會用吠叫告訴我們院子裡有賊,也不要有一隻靜靜坐著,讓我們被搶了還毫無警覺的狗。

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

William Gurnall

良心的平安無他,就是寬恕憐憫的回音。

Happy is that man who can be acquitted by himself in private, by others in public and by God in both.

Joseph Hall

快樂就是一個人能在私底下時坦然面對自己,在光天化日下坦然對眾人,而在私下或公開均能坦然面對上帝。

Conscience is a living thing, subject to growth and development.

Ole Hallesby

良心是活的,會成長也會發展。

Never was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Anna Jameson

沒有一次當良心靜默無聲時不帶來懲罰報應的。

Cleanse your conscience and your faith will be out of danger.

William Jenkyn

潔淨你的良心這能讓你的信仰脫離險惡。

A good conscience is the best treasure ever held, the best pleasure ever tasted, the best honour ever conferred.

William S. Plumer

美好良知是吾人擁有的最佳財富、最愜意的喜樂以及最崇高的榮譽。

Cowardice asks, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks, 'Is it politic? Vanity asks, 'Is it popular?' Conscience asks, 'Is it right?'.

William Moreley Punshon

膽小的人,怯怯的問道:「安全嗎?」貪圖己利的人問:「這樣做夠不夠技巧?」愛慕虛榮的人想的是:「這跟得上流行嗎?」良心就只問道:「這對嗎?」。

We can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience which is the ground of joy.

Richard Sibbes

沒有喜樂,我們做不好事情,而美好良知正是喜樂的基礎。

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

Thomas Watson

阿諛奉承無法醫治敗壞良心,造謠中傷亦無法毀損健全良心。

Developing the mind is important, but developing a conscience is the most precious gift parents can give their children.

John Gray

幫助孩子增進思考能力很重要,但培養良知更是父母所能給的最珍貴禮物。