Sentence examples for spark of conscience from inspiring English sources
But lighting the spark of conscience needs brave individuals like Thomas Clarkson, the moving spirit behind the founding of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of Slavery in 1787.
Bonaventure calls synderesis the "spark of conscience," and he sees it as resting in the affective part of human beings.
She slaps the lieutenant and spits in his face, which helps to spark a crisis of conscience.
The horrors depicted in its pages were meant to spark the conscience of the world.
Like many others around the country, I was especially moved by the protest of disabled people, and the parents of disabled children, whose moving words and actions (sometimes in their wheelchairs), helped to spark the conscience of the nation.
A quotation from George Washington alludes to the real life-and-death struggle: "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience".
Except that he definitely hasn't read the last rule: "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience".
The effort today to build here a memorial to the victims of past crimes is a spark of conscience and just one symbolic step toward preventing future abuses.
In "Crimes," the murderer, Judah, is an opthamologist who initially suffers pangs of guilt set off by "little sparks by his religious background," but in the end is blissfully freed from any attack of conscience.
Feeling pangs of conscience?
