“Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916, p. 75
“Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.”
Letter to his son, Scott R. Hayes (8 March 1892)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
6 April 1851
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
"The Righteousness of God" (1916) in The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928) as translated by Douglas Horton; this passage begins with a quote of Isaiah 40:3-5; often quoted alone has been the phrase following it: "Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."
Context: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed!" This is the voice of our conscience, telling us of the righteousness of God. And since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what it tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact — the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous. Our only question is what attitude toward the fact we ought to take.
We shall hardly approach the fact with our critical reason. The reason sees the small and the larger but not the large. It sees the preliminary, but not the final, the derived but not the original, the complex but not the simple. It sees what is human but not what is divine.
We shall hardly be taught this fact by men.
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Letter to Winston Churchill on his leadership during World War II (1961), as quoted in "Churchill and the Jewish state" by Colin Shindle in The Jerusalem Post (27 December 2007) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517221673&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author
Original: (fr) La voix de la conscience est si délicate, qu'il est facile d'étouffer; mais elle est si pure, qu'il est impossible de la méconnaître.
Source: De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813), Pt. 3, ch. 13
Kenneth Kaunda (1924) First President of Zambia
Kenneth Kaunda: Zambia's First President's Memorable Quotes, MSN.com, 17 June 2021 https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/kenneth-kaunda-zambias-first-presidents-memorable-quotes/ar-AAL9zVF,