dictate of conscience

The dictates of conscience are simply right and often resist further justification.

Certain civic obligations, such as jury service, are seen as a matter for individual decision according to the dictates of conscience.

The Republicans could act on principle, following the dictates of conscience and putting duty to the nation above personal and political considerations.

Every serious believer and every conscientious person in public office must balance respect for law with the dictates of conscience.

Today's Columns Dictates of conscience now guide the investments of people across the political spectrum.

Tens of millions of Christians stay underground because they want to worship according to the dictates of conscience.

The official boycott against Coors has been lifted, but each of us is free to follow the dictates of conscience in the beer aisle.

Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.'

Mr. Istook's amendment grants religious protections with the aim of securing for United States citizens "the right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience."

Yet, placed in a situation where certain ends (good intelligence) were demanded from prisoners who had been demonized and dehumanized, they showed how quickly the dictates of conscience can fade.

You serve the same purpose, you follow the same dictates of conscience, you create the same destiny as things that move and act through the very gift of life.

People with this disorder have a lifelong pattern of irresponsible behavior and show little concern for the rights of others, the norms of society, the dictates of conscience, or the law.

That is, if the few formerly stingy, very rich old men suffer emotional breakdowns on Christmas Eve and, the next day, give money to the needy according to the dictates of conscience.

The Committee denied her the Certificate of Character and Loyalty due to her appending the words "This obedience being qualified always by dictates of conscience" to the state's teachers' oath.

Of the many teachers I knew, first at Montaigne and then at Louis-le-Grand, not one ever opposed my being there, and many encouraged it beyond the dictates of conscience in their profession.

They rejected the idea of receiving the unconverted into full membership or admitting them to Communion, replaced liturgical ceremonies with simple worship services, and formed new congregations to worship and serve according to these dictates of conscience.

The Court took upon itself to prevent a man from acting against the dictates of conscience as defined by the Court, and to grant injunctions in anticipation of injury, as well as relief where injury had been done.

The revised language reads: "To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage or traditions on public property, including schools, shall not be infringed.

But the watercress salad with saffron-steeped nectarines was so meager that we decided there really should be some dictate of conscience that decrees that if an appetizer costs $6, it should include materials that cost a minimum of, say 25 cents.

And while calling for a renewed effort to evangelize in Asia, he said the Catholic Church "respects the freedom of individuals to seek the truth and to embrace it according to the dictates of conscience, and in this light she firmly rejects proselytism and the use of unethical means to gain conversions."

The general, accustomed on every ordinary occasion to give the law in his family, prepared for no reluctance but of feeling, no opposing desire that should dare to clothe itself in words, could in brook the opposition of his son, steady as the sanction of reason and the dictate of conscience could make it.

Finally, Representative Rick A. Lazio of Long Island tonight contrasted the President's statements on Monica S. Lewinsky with the sacrifice American soldiers make in battle, saying, "It should not be difficult now to tell the truth or vote according to the dictates of conscience even if it means the end of one's career."

However, if knowledge is absent, "those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience."