Sentence examples for inward conscience from inspiring English sources

The attack is driven by the imagined ideal of the cloistered monk-justice, innocent of worldly vanities, free of political connections and guided only by the gem-like flame of inward conscience.

What matters here is scrutiny; the inward gaze of conscience.

And because the nation's post-Vietnam accounting was stillborn -- the war's opponents were blamed for our "defeat" and our bellicosity turned inward -- the conscience of the security establishment remained untouched.

Quaker conversion narratives also influenced the style of The Age of Reason; Davidson and Scheick argue that its "introductory statement of purpose, a fervid sense of inward inspiration, a declared expression of conscience, and an evangelical intention to instruct others" resemble the personal confessions of American Quakers.

Often the "opening" of the Inward Light is a "concern" for the sufferings of others and a mandate laid upon the conscience to take action to alleviate that suffering.

The more inward faith of Protestantism, for example, established a perpetual internal conflict between natural impulses and religious conscience.

Turn inward.

"Your focus turns inward.

Agnes Martin turned inward instead.

Watchdog, gadfly, conscience, irritant.

His conscience pounces: "Aha!